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Planning commission conditionally approves retaining wall modification at 5441 36th Street after neighbor dispute
Summary
After lengthy testimony and debate about encroachment and past enforcement actions, the commission conditionally approved a site-plan amendment at 5441 36th Street that requires the retaining wall to start at least 3 feet from the east property line, a planted buffer (shrubs every 5 feet), retention of prior canopy/tree requirements, and submission of updated stamped plans to staff and the neighbor within 14 days.
Cascade Charter Township’s Planning Commission on June 2 granted conditional approval for a site-plan amendment at 5441 36th Street after a prolonged exchange among planning staff, the applicant’s architect and contractor, and a neighboring property owner who alleged repeated encroachments.
Staff summarized a multi-year history for the site that included an approved plan, a missing recorded grading easement, work that extended onto a neighbor’s property and a cease-and-desist order. The applicant sought to change the previously approved poured-concrete retaining wall (set 7 feet 9 inches from the property line) to an engineered block wall that, the architect said, can be set closer to the property line because it uses a crushed-stone footing and integrated drainage.
Mr. McGovern, the…
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