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Parking variance for 45-unit affordable project fails to secure approval after heated debate
Summary
The ZBA did not approve a requested waiver of 33 parking spaces for a proposed 45-unit affordable housing project on E. 3rd St.; a motion to approve failed and subsequent procedural action left the variance unresolved, leaving the project without the zoning relief it sought.
A request to waive 33 required parking spaces for a proposed 45-unit affordable housing project on East 3rd Street failed to secure approval at the Royal Oak Zoning Board of Appeals after extended public comment and board debate.
Staff summarized the revised project: the developer reduced an originally approved six-story plan to a lower-height building with 45 units and 35 parking spaces after removing an underground parking level for structural and cost reasons. Under the current ordinance the…
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