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Planning panel approves new retail center on 8 Mile Road; alley vacation, parking variances and neighborhood concerns remain
Summary
The Warren City Planning Commission on July 28 approved a site plan for a new retail center on 8 Mile Road, subject to revised drawings, landscape fixes and several variances that must be pursued with the Zoning Board of Appeals.
The Warren City Planning Commission voted July 28 to approve a site plan for a new retail center on 8 Mile Road between Blackmar Avenue and Syracuse Avenue, subject to multiple standard conditions and future variances to be considered by the Zoning Board of Appeals.
Planning staff’s recommended conditions require the petitioner to submit revised site and landscape plans that, among other things, (1) prohibit outdoor retail sales; (2) add square-footage figures for an existing adjacent building and recalculate parking; (3) remove invasive plant species from the landscape plan; (4) combine two parcels into one parent parcel; (5) provide documentation showing the 20-foot east–west alley has been vacated or seek alley vacation; and (6) screen and maintain a dumpster area on property to the west.
Staff also noted variances will likely be needed from the…
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