Planning Commission backs rezoning for 143rd Avenue bike skills park and approves site plan pending council rezoning

On Jan. 14, 2025, the Holland City Planning Commission voted to recommend that City Council rezone 5651 143rd Avenue from I (industrial) to OS (open space) and approved a site plan for a bike skills park and public recreation area, with the site plan approval contingent on City Council approving the rezoning and on the conditions listed in the staff report.

Dan Callum, Greenway Manager for the ODC network, described the project as a roughly 20-acre site on the south edge of the city adjacent to the city’s main nature preserve. “The 20 acre site is gonna be a combination of education, recreation with the use of bike trails, lane conservation and restoration on the site,” Callum said, and he added the applicant is working with drainage offices and Fishback to explore a sustainable stormwater demonstration on the parcel.

The site plan calls for a small parking lot of “a couple dozen spaces” off 100th and 143rd, a…