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Votes at a glance: Council offers consent approvals, schedules formal voting on agenda items
Summary
Council members offered approval on consent or direction for several routine agenda items, and discussed conditions for a major planned development. Formal voting for final adoption is scheduled at the council's upcoming voting meeting.
At an agenda-setting session the Livonia City Council reviewed multiple routine items and several requests that will appear on the council's formal voting docket. Council members generally offered approval on consent for routine requests; the council also discussed conditions and follow-up for the 7 Mile/Farmington planned development (see separate story).
Items discussed and motions offered or instructions provided:
- Noise ordinance waiver for a car show at St. Colette's Catholic Church on June 7, 2025 (consent motion offered). The applicant described the event as the eighth annual show and said the same DJ used in prior years will return. (Item 1)
- Noise ordinance waiver for a July 4, 2025 block party at 18111 and 18133 Floral (consent motion offered). Council urged applicants to consider the city's $500 neighborhood grant program for future events. (Item 2)
- Revocation of commercial rehabilitation exemption certificate C2020-007 for property at 31501 Schoolcraft Road at the request of property owners (motion to approve on consent offered). Staff described this as a housekeeping request and noted the owners may return should construction conditions change. (Item 3)
- Planned general development agreement for 33500 West 7 Mile (major discussion; staff to negotiate surety and revised phasing language and return item for formal vote). Council requested bond/surety language and clearer commencement requirements for the residential phase. (Item 4)
- Authorization to waive formal bidding and purchase computers for the police department via the State of Michigan contract (consent motion offered). Staff said the purchase covers roughly one-third of desktop replacements and is budgeted. (Item 5)
- Approval to close out the 2024 sidewalk program and authorize additional appropriation language (staff said no additional appropriation is required; motion to close project/approve consent offered). (Item 6)
- Acceptance and recording of a stormwater facilities maintenance agreement related to Kroger store expansion at 33523 8 Mile Road (consent motion offered). Staff called this a routine recording after approvals and asked council to accept it. (Item 7)
Most of the above items had motions offered for approval on the consent agenda; staff indicated several will be on the formal February 10 voting docket for final action. The council gave no final roll-call votes during this agenda-setting discussion; where council members explicitly moved approval, the transcript records the motion but not a formal tally.
