Planning commission tables 9-unit Veronica/Beaconsfield townhouse plan after parking, engineering and late-submission concerns

The Eastpointe City Planning Commission voted unanimously Nov. 6 to table a site-plan application for a proposed nine-unit townhouse development on the southwest corner of Veronica and Beaconsfield until its Dec. 4 meeting.

Planner (Mister Erbil) described the project as two, two-story buildings totaling nine townhouses (five units on the west building, four on the east), each roughly 1,240 square feet and oriented to front on Veronica. The application shows a shared mail kiosk, an enclosed area for rolling garbage containers, bike racks and landscaping; the applicant identified nine on-street parking spaces on Veronica in the revised plan submitted the morning of the meeting.

Resident Jennifer Nicholas asked whether the new Veronica/Beaconsfield units would be affordable and whether they would include on-site parking. “I was kind of trying to look at the map, the site plan…and it seems like it’s going to be a very tight fit,” said Jennifer Nicholas, Eastpointe resident. The applicant’s representative said the units are intended to be moderate-income and for sale, and that the project has a grant through the Michigan State Housing…