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Request for Site Plan Approval - File No. PSP2025-0004 - for Yates Cider Mill to construct a refrigerated storage building with associated site improvements, located at 1950 E. Avon Rd., on the southeast side of Avon, east of Dequindre Rd., south of 23 Mile Rd., Parcel No. 15-13-427-002, zoned NB Neighborhood Business with the MR Mixed Residential Overlay; Mike Titus, Applicant
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Resolved, in the matter of City File No. PSP2025-0004 (Yates Cider Mill), the Planning Commission approves the proposed Site Plan, to allow for the construction of a new refrigerated storage building and associated site improvements in the NB Neighborhood Business District, with the MR Mixed Residential District, based on plans received by the Planning Department on July 7, 2025, with the following findings and subject to the following conditions:
Findings
1. The site plan and supporting documents demonstrate that all applicable requirements of the Zoning Ordinance, as well as other City Ordinances, standards, and requirements, can be met subject to the conditions noted below.
2. The proposed project is being constructed for largely for service and delivery type vehicles rather than the general public and will accessed via a modified entrance to Avon Road, which is a major roadway, thereby promoting current and future safety and convenience of vehicular traffic both within the site and on adjoining streets.
3. Off-street parking areas for the general public going to the cider mill and associated uses already exist on the west side of the cider mill building and will not be impacted by the proposed improvements.
4. The proposed development and associated improvements should have a satisfactory and harmonious relationship between the development on-site, the existing development in the adjacent vicinity, and has been approved by the City’s Historic Districts Commission.
5. The proposed development will not have an unreasonably detrimental or injurious effect upon the existing characteristics and features of the site or those of the surrounding area.
6. The Planning Commission finds that a modification to allow the required right-of-way landscaping to be planted throughout the site is appropriate, due to the proximity of the historic cider mill building to the roadway, the existing and proposed drive locations, the City’s required clear vision requirements and given that the same number of trees will be planted as otherwise required by ordinance.
Conditions
1. Provide a landscape bond in the amount of the landscape installation cost estimation shown on the site plan ($14,700), plus inspection fees, as adjusted by staff as necessary, prior to the preconstruction meeting with Engineering.
2. The applicant shall address all remaining comments and notations as depicted on the reviewed site plans.