| Mr. Anzek stated that he and Mr. Breuckman were contacted several |
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| weeks ago by Mr. Vito Terracciano, a home builder who had been actively |
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| working on the Summit at Kings Cove. He took over the development |
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| from the bank and had been very successful - the project was almost sold |
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| out. Mr. Terracciano had talked to Mr. Anzek about other sites in town, |
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| including the project known as Little Winkler Estates, a ten-unit |
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| development on Dequindre approved in 2006. It was a seven-acre tract |
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| of land, and there were two homes at the end which would share a private |
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| drive with the Little Winkler development. Mr. Damian Kassab, who could |
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| not be present, owned the Little Winkler property. He came to the City to |
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| talk about reactivating the development, and it was discovered that the |
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| approval had not been extended and had expired. Staff realized that |
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| subsequent to the expiration, when the City adopted a new Zoning |
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| Ordinance, that the property had been Rezoned to RE, Residential |
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| Estate, a new zoning designation which required a minimum of one-acre |
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| lots. He recalled that it had been put in place for mostly the northeastern |
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| properties in the City. The City had wanted to try to establish some |
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| means of protecting the larger lot developments in those areas. The |
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| subject property was previously zoned R-1 and had reached Preliminary |
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| Approval for ten units, but in applying the new zoning standards, with one |
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| acre lots, the development could perhaps get only five lots. That was not |
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| necessarily a bad thing, but the land surrounding the development would |
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| leave it a little out of context. The property to the north, Winkler Estates, |
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| had an average lot size of 20,000 square feet. To the east in Shelby |
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| Township, the lots averaged 12,000 square feet and the homes in |
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| Rochester, to the south, averaged 14,000 square feet. |
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