Rochester Hills council approves conditional use for pharmacy drive‑through at 1495 North Rochester Road

Rochester Hills — The City Council on a unanimous vote approved a conditional‑use permit to allow a drive‑through pharmacy as part of a Meijer Fresh redevelopment at the former Hollywood Market site, listed in planning materials as 1495 North Rochester Road.

Planning staff described the project as a conversion of the existing shopping center building into a smaller Meijer Fresh format of roughly 47,500 square feet (transcript language on size was ambiguous and staff described the store as substantially smaller than a traditional Meijer). The package before council included a site plan previously approved by the Planning Commission, a small building addition of roughly 500 square feet, new parking islands and landscaping, a new fence and dumpster enclosures to improve buffering for adjacent houses to the west, and a replacement generator intended to reduce…