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Planning Commission recommends rezoning 17020 East 10 Mile to allow potential cell tower
Summary
The Eastpointe Planning Commission voted to recommend rezoning a small parcel at 17020 East 10 Mile Road from MU-1 (neighborhood mixed use) to LI (light industrial) to allow consideration of a wireless communications facility; the recommendation goes to city council.
The Eastpointe Planning Commission voted to recommend that the city council rezone 17020 East 10 Mile Road from MU-1 (neighborhood mixed use) to LI (light industrial) to allow a proposed wireless communications facility to proceed to special land‑use and site‑plan review.
Commissioners said the property’s context — including existing industrial zoning to the east and the parcel’s small size and building form — supported consideration of light industrial zoning as an extension of the adjacent district. Kim Smith, the city’s zoning administrator, told the commission the parcel abuts an existing light industrial district and that the planning review letter dated Dec. 26 recommended evaluating consistency with the master plan, ordinance intent, street system, and public services. Smith said the parcel’s current building “is not a building…
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