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Housing commission's duplex plan approved with fence, designated parking conditions
Summary
The Big Rapids Zoning Board approved a non-use variance letting the Big Rapids Housing Commission build a duplex at 402 Second Avenue despite minimum-lot and parking rules, subject to a privacy fence and designated visitor parking at the commission's overflow lot.
The Big Rapids Zoning Board of Appeals approved a variance to allow the Big Rapids Housing Commission to build a duplex at 402 Second Avenue on a lot smaller than the ordinance ordinarily requires for duplexes.
Linda Miller, representing the Big Rapids Housing Commission, told the board the project is intended to expand market-rate housing stock and will partner with the local career center’s construction trades program. "We are proposing to build a duplex on this lot which is directly across from Parkview Village," Miller said. She also said many of the housing commission’s tenants have only one vehicle, which informed the decision to locate two parking…
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