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Kalamazoo planners approve special-use permit for 1303 Lake Street rooming house after driveway amendment fails
Summary
The Kalamazoo City Planning Commission approved a special-use permit allowing the dwelling at 1303 Lake Street to operate as a rooming house for six unrelated adults. An amendment to require surfacing of an unimproved secondary driveway failed on a tie; the permit was re-voted after staff reopened the public hearing.
The Kalamazoo City Planning Commission on a rescheduled meeting night approved a special-use permit recognizing the dwelling at 1303 Lake Street as a rooming house configured for six unrelated adults.
Staff told the commission the property — a roughly 1,850‑square‑foot single‑family house built about 1904 and vacant until around 2020 — was renovated by the applicant’s company, Housing Now LLC, and that inspections had produced a rental certification pending formal land‑use approval. “This rooming house is set up for 6 unrelated adults,” the city planner said during the presentation.
Why it matters: the permit converts an existing, rehabilitated…
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