File #: 2025-0430    Version: 1
Type: Project Status: Passed
File created: 9/30/2025 In control: Planning Commission
On agenda: Final action: 10/7/2025
Title: Request for Tree Removal Permit - File No. PTP2025-0010 - to removal up to 550 regulated trees (including specimen) with up to 527 replacement trees required 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
Attachments: 1. Staff Report 092525.pdf, 2. Reviewed plans Pt. 1.pdf, 3. Reviewed plans Pt. 2 & ASTI review 091625.pdf, 4. NF Engineers letter 091225.pdf, 5. Wetland Delineation Report 041825.pdf, 6. Environmental Impact Statement.pdf, 7. Development application.pdf, 8. WRC letter 080625.pdf, 9. Public meeting notice.pdf, 10. Email notice to HOAs 092625.pdf, 11. Public comment.pdf

Title

Request for Tree Removal Permit - File No. PTP2025-0010 - to removal up to 550 regulated trees (including specimen) with up to 527 replacement trees required 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

 

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Resolved, in the matter of File No. PTP2025-0010 (Nowicki Park) the Planning Commission grants a Tree Removal Permit 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 proposed removal of regulated trees is in conformance with the City’s Tree Conservation Ordinance.

 

2.  The applicant is proposing to remove a total of four hundred and sixty-six (466) regulated trees and twenty-two (22) specimen trees as a part of site development, and replant a total four hundred and sixty-five (465) trees onsite.

 

3.  Further, the applicant has requested an overall blanket approval to remove an additional number of trees to not exceed an overall total of five hundred and fifty (550) trees and with that have a total potential replacement total not to exceed five hundred and twenty-seven (527) trees, to allow additional flexibility in overall site development.  Given the scope of this project, the public benefit being provided, and the City’s desire to work with abutting property owners to address concerns that may require minor modifications to the plans, the Planning Commission finds that this flexibility is necessary to allow the appropriate development of the site.

 

Conditions

 

1. Tree protective fencing, as reviewed and approved by the City staff, shall be installed prior to temporary grade being issued by Engineering.