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SmithGroup planner gives zoning and master-plan refresher to Ferndale commissioners
Summary
Kathleen Duffy of SmithGroup led a training for the Planning Commission covering the Planning Enabling Act, zoning fundamentals, site-plan review, variances, conditional rezonings, RRC certification, and conflict-of-interest best practices. Commissioners asked about food-truck regulation and application expirations.
Kathleen Duffy, an urban planner with SmithGroup, led a training session for the Ferndale Planning Commission that reviewed statutory foundations, the role of the master plan, zoning fundamentals and procedural best practices.
Duffy summarized statutory authority under the Michigan Planning Enabling Act and the Michigan Zoning Enabling Act and described the six-year capital improvement plan as an implementation tool for the master plan. On the obligations of decision-makers she said, “If the standards in your ordinance…
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