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Southfield Planning Commission adopts 2024 annual report, postpones two development items
Summary
At its Jan. 29 meeting the City of Southfield Planning Commission approved its 2024 annual report and referred it to city council. The commission also voted to postpone two items tied to a landscaping proposal to no date certain and approved routine minutes and the meeting agenda.
The City of Southfield Planning Commission on Jan. 29 approved its 2024 annual report and referred the document to the City Council, and it postponed two development items while applicants complete stormwater and engineering work.
City Planner Crowe said the report is “required by...the planning enabling act” and summarizes the planning department’s work, projects and grant activity for the year. The report presented totals for review activity, highlighted large and ongoing projects, and described the department’s sustainability and grant-seeking efforts.
The nut of the report: planners said the department handled a high volume of meetings and reviews in 2024 and that the city saw roughly $180 million in proposed development value, of which about $24 million came from administrative reviews delegated midyear. Crowe also listed major projects under way or in progress, including mixed-use developments on Greenfield and the Northland site, affordable housing applications with stacked financing, the Veterans Village conversion, and several roadway and trail projects. The report noted sustainability accomplishments including a Michigan Green Communities Challenge gold designation, a Charging Smart bronze designation for EV policy updates, and multiple grant awards and applications.
Commissioners discussed the report briefly, praised the presentation and asked staff to check updated development-cost figures for the Northland project. After discussion, the commission voted to adopt the report and refer it to City Council; Planner Crowe said council typically “receive[s] and file[s]” the commission’s annual report.
In procedural business, the commission approved the meeting agenda at the start of the session and later approved minutes for the Dec. 4 study meeting and the Dec. 18 regular meeting. Two agenda items tied to an Eagle Landscaping application at 22106 and 22108 West Eight Mile Road were postponed to “no date certain” while the applicant completes stormwater design and returns with city-engineer-reviewed revisions.
Quotes
“It's a requirement of the law. It's also good practice,” City Planner Crowe said when introducing the annual report. “We had 29 planning commission meetings last year…we deal with six different boards regularly and then we also deal with the subcommittees of council.”
Ending
Planner Crowe told the commission the department will present the report to council and continue work on the CIP and a slate of zoning amendments expected later in the spring after the capital improvement program is finalized.
