April 3, 2021 By Jessica Mathews / news@whmi.com
The Green Oak Township Planning Commission met virtually Thursday night and voted to recommend approval of a needed rezoning for a proposed apartment complex project.
The Commission recommended approval from research office and limited industrial to residential multiple family conditional rezoning of a vacant parcel located on the south side off Maltby Road between Whitmore Lake Road and Rickett Road for The Parc at Green Oak. Two members were absent and no comments were made by the public.
The request is being petitioned by Vector Development and it was stated that representatives have been before the Commission several times and have indicated theyâll comply with all zoning requirements.
January 25, 2021 By Mike Kruzman / news@whmi.com
A new waterfront housing development is on track following approval from the Green Oak Township Planning Commission.
Applicant Tom Schroder and Project Engineer Michelle Spencer were before commissioners Thursday night seeking their blessing on a proposed development on Dove Lake. A planned unit development was being sought for the property which is approximately 108.5 acres and zoned as rural estates. Schroder is seeking to build 37 single family homes in a cluster on the west side of the lake. All of the homes would have lake frontage. The project had been before the planning commission before but lacked a parallel plan that satisfied commissioners. A parallel plan shows what could be built on a property using its current zoning.
January 19, 2021 By Jessica Mathews / news@whmi.com
The Green Oak Township Planning Commission discussed some priorities it wants to focus on in 2021 at a recent virtual meeting.
In addition to regular business items, there is a sidebar priorities list that were described as extra-curricular activities for the Commission to focus on, which sometimes run annually or every couple of years because they might not get to the whole list. The Commission tries to set priorities based on whatâs important and labels them as being a low, medium or high priority.
Planner Paul Montagno noted they had some hiccups during the last year with getting together and not being able to meet in person due to COVID-19 and working through some items. He said the master plan theyâve been working on is probably the most important and is shown as a high priority. Since they havenât been able to hold public input meetings so that is still kind of on hold.