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Commission recommends rezoning to fix century-old encroachments between home and Mount Calvary Cemetery
Summary
The planning commission recommended rezoning of two adjacent parcels at 1362 and 1364 Leonard St. NW to formalize long-standing encroachments: a strip of cemetery land containing headstones will be added to Mount Calvary Cemetery and a small portion of cemetery land with a garage/driveway will be added to the single-family lot.
The Grand Rapids City Planning Commission on July 24 recommended approval of two companion rezoning requests to correct historical encroachments between a single-family home at 1362 Leonard Street Northwest and Mount Calvary Cemetery at 1364 Leonard Street Northwest.
Avery (staff planner) told the commission the items were paired because cemetery improvements have encroached onto the single-family parcel and the home’s garage and driveway extend onto the cemetery parcel. Staff said the first recorded gravestone on the site dates to 1928 and the most recent was placed in 2018; the encroachments appear to have accumulated while both parcels were…
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