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Planning commissioners hear rezoning request for Winter Sausage; applicant withdraws petition
Summary
Winter Sausage asked to rezone four parcels on Gratiot Avenue to light industrial; planning staff recommended denial because the master plan designates the area for regional mixed-use. After public comment and commissioner questions, the applicant said it would withdraw the rezoning request for further study.
At a May 1 Eastpointe City Planning Commission meeting, Winter Sausage asked the commission to rezone four parcels along Gratiot Avenue and Crescentwood from mixed-use districts (MU-3 and MU-1) to light industrial, a change planning staff recommended denying because it conflicts with the city’s adopted future land use map.
Planning staff member Chris Urbiel explained that three of the parcels are zoned MU-3 and the Crescentwood-fronting parcel is MU-1, while the master plan’s future land use map designates the site as regional mixed-use and part of a central business change area. “The request is to rezone all of them to light industrial, which would allow all of them to be used in the future for a range of industrial uses,” Urbiel said. He told commissioners the principal concern is the rezoning’s incompatibility with the master plan and the parcels’ proximity to residential…
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