Title
Request for Natural Features Setback Modification - File No. PNFSM2025-0003 - to modify the required natural features setbacks by approximately 3,200 lineal feet associated with plans for the City of Rochester Hills to develop Nowicki Park with a community center building, playground, dog park, walking paths, maintenance building, and associated site improvements on approximately 34.5 acres of land, located at 670 N. Adams Rd. and Parcel Nos. 15-08-151-001 and -002, and 15-08-100-006, -007 and -008, on the east side of Adams and south of Tienken, zoned R-1 One Family Residential; Steve Sutton, P.E., Nowak & Fraus Engineers, on behalf of the City of Rochester Hills, Applicant
Body
Resolved, in the matter of City File No. PNFSM2025-0003 Nowicki Park, the Planning Commission grants a natural features setback modification for approximately 3,200 linear feet of permanent impacts to two (2) different wetland areas identified on the site plans to construct the proposed building and associated overlook area, parking areas, and pathways, and associated development infrastructure, based on plans received by the Planning Department on September 11, 2025, with the following findings and subject to the following conditions:
Findings
1. The impact to the Natural Features Setback area is necessary for construction activities related to the proposed development; further, the applicant has minimized the impacts to the natural features.
2. ASTI has reviewed the subject plans and proposed impacts to the natural features setbacks associated with Wetland B and Wetland F along with the proposed mitigation efforts to help reduce the impacts to those natural features and has indicated that the plans as proposed are satisfactory.
Conditions
1. Work to be conducted using best management practices to ensure flow and circulation patterns and chemical and biological characteristics of wetlands are not impacted.
2. Site must be graded with onsite soils and seeded with a City approved seed mix.
3. Those areas identified as “Temporary Impacts” must be restored to original grade with original soils or equivalent soils and seeded with a City approved seed mix where possible, and the applicant must implement best management practices as detailed in the ASTI review letter dated September 16, 2025 prior to final approval by staff.