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Votes at a glance: Planning & Economic Development committee actions, April 17, 2025
Summary
The committee recorded a set of procedural and project motions — primarily to send items to formal with recommendations to approve, and to schedule several items to return to committee — during its April 17 meeting. This roundup lists each motion and the committee outcome.
The Planning & Economic Development Standing Committee took several motions on April 17, 2025. Most motions were carried by voice vote with no recorded objections. The committee used the formal-referral process (sending items to the formal City Council agenda) for multiple property sales, planning items and the Baobab Fair commercial-redevelopment-district request. Where the transcript did not name a mover, the committee record used a neutral description.
Votes at a glance (committee action; outcome):
- Line item 5 — Establish commercial facilities redevelopment district for Baobab Fair (16900 East Warren): Motion to send to formal with recommendation to approve; committee approved by voice vote with no objections.
- Line item 7.1 — Status of Planning & Development Department property sales on East McNichols: Motion to bring back in 2 weeks; committee approved.
- Line items 7.3 and 8.4 — Memos regarding Detroit Land Bank Authority (member Waters): Motion to receive and file both items; committee approved.
- Line item 7.2 — Status of memorandum regarding past funding and staffing of Planning Department: Motion to bring back in 3 weeks; committee approved.
- Line item 7.4 — Sale of 19427 and 19435 West Warren Avenue (amended purchase and sale): Motion to send to formal with recommendation to approve as amended (facade and signage conditions noted); committee approved.
- Line item 8.1 — City Planning Commission 2025–26 Homeless Solutions funding schedule and list of applicants: Motion to send to formal with recommendation to approve; committee approved.
- Line items 8.2 and 8.3 — Oak Grove AME Church historic designation study and ad hoc appointments: Motion to send to formal with recommendation to approve; committee approved.
- Line item 8.5 — Amendment/extension to quit claim deed for Trumbull Properties LLC (10 townhomes): Motion to send to formal with recommendation to approve (36-month extension to close financing); committee approved.
- Line item 8.6 — Property sale for laundromat project at 12400 Kelly Road: Motion to approve and send to formal with recommendation to approve; committee approved.
- Line item 8.7 — Property sale at 13033 Puritan Avenue: Motion to send to formal with recommendation to approve; committee approved.
- Line item 8.8 — Property sale at 7619 and 7639 Mac: Motion to send to formal with recommendation to approve; committee approved.
- Line item 8.9 — Property sale at 1123 East 7 Mile Road: Motion to send to formal with recommendation to approve; committee approved.
- (Transcript item titled "line item 8.1" later in sequence) — Property sale at 18468 and 18472 Mount Elliott Street: Motion to send to formal with recommendation to approve; committee approved.
- Line item 8.11 — Property sale at 9,413 West Grand River (adjacent lot for Poetry Café expansion/outdoor seating): Motion to send to formal with recommendation to approve; committee approved.
- Line item 8.12 — Property sale at 2202 Wilkins Street: Motion to send to formal with recommendation to approve; committee approved.
- Line item 8.13 — Transfer of jurisdiction and sale of vacated alley adjacent to Barthwell Stewart Park (sale to adjacent landowner Latimer): Motion to send to formal with recommendation to approve; committee approved.
Notes on procedure and outcomes: Most motions were carried by voice vote and recorded as “Seeing no objections, that action shall be taken.” Where the committee amended a sale (for example, façade/signage conditions in item 7.4), the amendment was recorded in the committee’s discussion and incorporated into the motion. Several items were continued for short returns to committee (7.1 and 7.2). The Baobab Fair item (line 5) was a substantive public hearing and was sent to formal with a recommendation to approve; the committee did not grant a tax-exemption certificate at this meeting — any abatement certificate must be separately applied for and approved by City Council and the Michigan State Tax Commission.
