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Commission approves truck well and parking addition for ethnic market at 4400 14 Mile Road
Summary
The commission approved a site plan to convert a former vacant retail building into a consolidated ethnic market and add a truck well and parking, with required minor plan adjustments and a performance bond estimate of $24,000.
The Planning Commission approved a site plan July 14 to redevelop the former Gardner-White building at 4400 14 Mile Road into a consolidated ethnic market and to add a truck well and employee parking. The petitioner, John Guma, said the business would consolidate three locations into this single site, sell ethnic groceries and prepared foods, and operate deliveries with cube trucks (no semi-trailers) beginning at 9 a.m.
Planning staff recommended approval with conditions: submit revised site plans that add zoning information and adjust parking stall and maneuvering dimensions (recommend reducing some front stalls to 19 feet to gain a one-foot maneuvering lane), replace or reset broken parking bumper curbs, reevaluate a proposed light pole close to a driveway and set poles at least five feet from the east edge of the driveway, label existing and proposed fences, add trees especially along the south property line, and post a performance bond of $24,000 based on an $800,000 estimated project cost.
No members of the public spoke at the public hearing. Commissioners asked the petitioner to confirm there would be no semi-trailer deliveries; the petitioner said deliveries would use cube trucks only and that construction permits were waiting on site plan approval and county/MDOT reviews. Commissioner Halawadi moved to approve; Commissioner Choudhury seconded and the motion passed unanimously among those present.
