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SOUTHFIELD — For a generation, the Northland Center was a beacon, drawing people from all over to Southfield. Northland opened its doors in 1954 as an outdoor shopping center with gardens and fountains.

“At one point, the shopping center had the highest sales of any shopping center in the United States. It was really the first completely planned, regional shopping center in the United States; there were attempts at creating large shopping centers in the few previous years, but the architect eventually became known as the father of the shopping mall because of his work,” said Bruce Kopytek, an architect and the author of “Hudson’s Detroit’s World-Famous Department Store” and “Jacobson’s: I Miss It So.”

Kopytek is a graduate of the University of Detroit Mercy and has worked as an architect for 45 years.

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Oakland County launches new countywide radio system

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OAKLAND COUNTY — Oakland County first responders can now be anywhere in the state and contact their home base or communicate with other agencies through radio with the implementation of the county’s $61 million radio system from Motorola.

“How many of you have ever dropped a call on your cellphone? Come on, by a show of hands?” Dave Coulter, Oakland County executive, asked attendees of the press conference held March 27 at Southfield City Hall. “It’s frustrating. It’s irritating. But imagine that you’re a first responder, and you’re on your radio system, and you drop a call. That’s not just frustrating or irritating.

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Annual address highlights local developments

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SOUTHFIELD — Southfield Mayor

Ken Siver and Lathrup Village Mayor Kelly Garrett delivered their annual addresses at the Southfield Area Chamber of Commerce’s meeting March 25. They delivered a recap to the community March 28, followed by a question-and-answer session.

“Does anyone need a pompon? Because tonight we’re doing audience participation. We have a lot to cheer about. There are a lot of very good things that have taken place in the last year,” Siver stated.

The theme for this year’s address was “Touchdown to Success.” Upon entering the council chambers, audience members were equipped with pompons and were encouraged to cheer as Siver shared updates on economic developments, housing, the Northland redevelopment, community placemaking and public art.

Keeping with the football theme, Siver said that although he’s not “the biggest jock,” he was thrilled to see Southfield A&T win its first state championship in school history 36-32 over Belleville, and to welcome the new coach at Lawrence Technological University, Scott Merchant.

The mayor mentioned the $2.5 million investment in parks projects — using funds from capital improvement dollars, federal American Rescue Plan Act dollars and a $600,000 Michigan Economic Development Corp. grant for the Carpenter Lake Nature Preserve — that occurred in several

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ABOVE: With funding from the City Center Advisory Board, phase two of the “Monarch Butterfly Sculpture,” outside Eaton Corp., will add a butterfly garden this year.

RIGHT: An unknown piece was originally installed at the Northland Theater and is now located at City Hall. Photos by Patricia O’Blenes

Southfield, Optimist Club partner for teen mental health forum and essay contest

LATHRUP VILLAGE/SOUTHFIELD — The city of Southfield, the Optimist Club of Southfield-Lathrup Village, Metro Detroit Youth Clubs, Lathrup Village, Southfield Public Schools and Lawrence Technological University will host a teen mental health forum and essay contest at 2 p.m. May 5 at the Metro Detroit Youth Clubs Field Zone, in the lower level of the Southfield Pavilion, 26000 Evergreen Road.

The forum will feature panelists addressing the topic, “Nurturing Resilience: Empowering Parents and Youth to Transform Mental Challenges into Possibilities.”

The event will focus on Respectful, Engaging, Actionable and Lasting, or “REAL” Talk, conversations with police, fire and medical personnel.

The Optimist Club is holding a 500- to 600-word essay contest for middle and high school students addressing the panel topic. The first-, second- and third-place winners will receive cash prizes and recognition. LTU will offer two Blue Devil Scholarships worth $20,000 per year for four years or a maximum award for a bachelor’s degree of $80,000 for eight semesters to the first- and second-place winners.

Eligible participants are students in grades six through 12 who live, attend school or are a member of a youth mentorship program in Southfield or Lathrup Village. All entries must include three separate documents: an application, an essay cover page and an essay. Email entries to slvoptimist@ gmail.com by April 22.

For more information, visit southfield-lathrupvillageoptimists.org.

Groups partner to provide free legal services for veterans

SOUTHFIELD — The Southfield Human Services Department will partner with the Legal Aid and Defender Association to provide free legal services for veterans between 9 a.m. and noon on the second Monday of the month from April through September.

The association provides legal services to veterans who are homeless or facing homelessness. Veterans can receive help for legal matters such as homelessness prevention, consumer issues, family law, public benefits, employment or unemployment, criminal record expungement, license restoration and estate planning. These services are funded by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

For more information and questions not pertaining to the law, contact Rhonda Terry at (248) 796-4540.

Southfield partners to host community feast

SOUTHFIELD — The city of Southfield and Make Food Not Waste are partnering for a free Community Feast from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 13 at the Southfield Pavilion, 26000 Evergreen Road. Make Food Not Waste is a Detroit-based nonprofit with the mission to “keep food out of landfills and slow climate change by creating lasting solutions to food waste through education, food upcycling and advocacy.”

Southfield is currently involved in a food waste elimination study with the group. According to Danielle Todd, executive director of Make Food Not Waste, Southfield sends around 30 million pounds of food a year to landfills.

“Michigan has a goal of cutting food waste in half by 2030,” Todd said. “And that’s a billion pounds for the whole state. So we’ve got our work cut out for us. And we’re excited to use Southfield as this pilot to see what, you know, what we can do.”

The Community Feast is designed to inspire people to waste less food at home and show methods to make ingredients stretch. The event was held in Detroit in 2018 and 2019 but was paused due to the pandemic. The event will feature remarks from Senator Stabenow about the Farm Bill and cooking demonstrations by local chefs. Chef Will Coleman will present his TikTok famous “6-1 Grocery Shopping Method.” Lunch will be prepared by professional chefs from food that would otherwise go to waste. Attendees will also have the chance to meet local organizations committed to helping reduce food waste.

For more information about the Community Feast, contact Danielle Todd at danielle@makefoodnotwaste.org.

Southfield celebrates Earth Day with Rain Gardens 101

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SOUTHFIELD — The Southfield Parks and Recreation Department and the Friends of the Rouge are partnering to host a free presentation about rain gardens from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Earth Day, April 22, in the Southfield Pavilion, 26000 Evergreen Road.

Jaclyn Heikkila-Stafiej, the FOTR’s restoration coordinator, said rain gardens play a pivotal role in helping keep excess stormwater from overflowing in communities that don’t have separate sewer systems. She explained that the combined sewer pipes only hold so much water from toilets, showers, washing machines and dishwashers — as well as stormwater runoff — so when there is an excess amount of stormwater, those pipes fill quickly, which can lead to basement flooding and other overflow.

“Sometimes we have what’s called a combined sewer overflow, which is a pipe that’s piping some of that excess water directly into the river to try to get it out there quicker. Sometimes, it’s either partially treated just to

screen the solids, but still has a lot of those pollutants, like fertilizers, oils and other lawn chemicals that are getting into the river and can really cause harm to the overall health of the river, everything that lives in the river. And, of course, us, who rely on the river too,” Heikkila-Stafiej said. “Rain gardens are able to capture, store and manage that water right where they are. Keeping it out of the system, especially during rains, is really helpful.”

She added that deep-rooted Michigan native prairie plants can reach far into the ground, some reaching 15 feet or more down into the soil, creating a channel to pull the water down. Excess groundwater is then able to replenish the river naturally, and as the plants take in the water, they naturally filter out pollutants.

Heikkila-Stafiej mentioned that a rain garden also serves as a pollinator garden, providing food and habitat to important pollinators such as bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. She shared that some of her favorite Michigan native plants are purple coneflowers, black-eyed Susans, blazing star flowers,

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LEFT: Chuck Bevington and his daughter, Teagan, 6, share smiles at the 2024 daddy-daughter dance March 23 at the Southfield Pavilion. BELOW: William Daniels and his twin daughters Madison and Charity, 6, came dressed to impress. BOTTOM LEFT: Dads and daughters take to the dance floor to show off their moves.

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parks throughout Southfield, including the installation of new playground equipment in Civic Center Park, Freeway Park and Bedford Woods Park as the first stage in the Parks and Recreation Department’s plan to replace all 12 playgrounds throughout the city. He also mentioned that Simms and Miller parks received renovations, with new paved walking paths and the addition of basketball courts.

“I think for 20 years our residents have been asking for a dog park,” he said. “And so we’re going to have a dog park in Lahser Woods.”

He said a membership will be required, and a key fob system will be used to enter the dog park. He added that vaccinations and a license will be required for all dogs. There will be separate areas for small dogs and large dogs. Lahser Woods Park will also receive a new parking lot and pathway.

“What we’ve been working on for over a decade is to make Southfield more pedestrian-friendly, and we’re seeing the rewards of that. We see a lot of people walking, walking their dog, pushing their stroller, just out as we’ve added 20 miles of pathways in the last 11 years, and more coming,” Siver stated. “It’s not just about pathways. You have to layer on points of interest. It’s what makes a vibrant city. So we are creating public spaces that improve urban vitality.”

He shared that the Nine Mile Road corridor revitalization project saw the completion of Evergreen to Prescott in 2023, and another phase of it will be from Prescott to Lahser this year.

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Northland

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He has a special connection to Northland as he previously worked as the architect behind the Northland redevelopment from 2020 to 2023. In his book about Hudson’s, Kopytek has a chapter on Northland that focuses on the landmark as a mid-century marvel.

On April 3, Kopytek presented “Northland Center: The Remaking of a Mid-Century Landmark” at the Southfield Public Library, an event focusing on the history of Northland and the site’s potential.

He said that before people can understand Northland, they must first understand Hudson’s department store. Hudson’s was founded in 1881 by Joseph Lowthian Hudson, and it was a retail phenomenon.

“For 60 years or so, the big department store in Detroit was the JL Hudson Co., familiarly known as Hudson’s, and this was beyond just the department store — was a real institution,” Kopytek said. “They were a giant, 2.15-million-square-foot department store in downtown Detroit that people would

drive miles to come to. It was the third-largest department store building in the world, the tallest department store in the world. It had 25 stories plus four underground basements. And it literally dominated retail in Detroit. It had competitors, but really, when somebody wanted the best of the best, they would go to Hudson’s.”

Enter Victor Gruen, a famous Jewish architect who fled Austria in 1938 due to the threat of Nazis. Gruen came to the U.S. and made a name for himself designing shops. During World War II, he penned several influential papers and articles about what shopping would look like once the war ended.

Kopytek said that not much came from the plans Gruen drew up until a chance encounter.

“He had two offices, one in New York and one in Los Angeles. When he was flying back and forth between the two there was a tremendous storm on the East Coast that forced the plane down in Detroit to land, and he would not be able to fly into the East Coast for a day or so because of the weather.”

Gruen took a tour of Detroit led by some friends he had in the area. Kopytek explained

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that Gruen thought Hudson’s was a “shining jewel” in the gray, industrial city. Gruen approached James B. Webber, Jr., one of J.L. Hudson’s nephews, to discuss the prospect of building another Hudson’s.

“The president of the store at the time, which was another Webber brother, Richard, didn’t like the idea of just building a store in the middle of nowhere or attaching it to a strip mall because he felt that Hudson’s reputation would diminish from those things. So, what Victor Gruen proposed was the biggest shopping center in the world. And he said, when Hudson’s has to do something, it has to do it big, or it shouldn’t do it at all,” Kopytek said.

From this, four shopping centers were born: Eastland, Southland, Northland and Westland.

During the Korean War, Hudson’s paused its expansion plans because the U.S. government restricted the use of raw materials. Koptek said that this gave Gruen an opportunity to rethink his design of Northland. The plans included an underground tunnel, and a lower level for loading docks and storage rooms to be built out of reinforced concrete.

The Hudson organization told the Department of Defense that they were building a bomb shelter for 100,000 people.

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PSLU24-0007 (PUBLIC HEARING-SPECIAL USE) is a Special Use request of Superior Fence, to operate a contractor’s offce with ancillary showroom and storage at 26650 W 8 Mile Road, Southfeld, Michigan (Parcel 24-31-377-045).

PSLU24-0008 (PUBLIC HEARING-SPECIAL USE) is a Special Use request of MAB Real Estate, Inc., to construct and operate a gas station with beer/wine/liquor sales and a carry-out restaurant at 30835 Greenfeld Road, Southfeld, Michigan (Parcel 24-12-230-027).

PSP24-0004 (SITE PLAN REVIEW) is a Site Plan Review request of MAB Real Estate, Inc., to construct and operate a gas station with beer/wine/liquor sales and a carry-out restaurant at 30835 Greenfeld Road, Southfeld, Michigan (Parcel 24-12-230-027).

PZRRUDD24-0001 (PUBLIC HEARING-RESIDENTIAL UNIT DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT) is a rezoning request of Wellspring LDHA LLC, to build two four-story apartment buildings (60 apartments total) and four two-story attached townhome buildings (12 townhomes total) on Hooper Blvd, west of Berg Road, Southfeld, Michigan (Parcels 24-20-277001, -002, -003, -004, -005, -006, -007, -008, -012, -026 & -027).

PRESENT: Councilmembers: Daniel Brightwell, Lloyd Crews, Yolanda Haynes, Charles Hicks, Coretta Houge, and Michael Ari Mandelbaum. EXCUSED: Councilmember Nancy Banks. ALSO PRESENT: Mayor Kenson

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Approve Authorization to Purchase Evergreen UV Disinfection Lights and ActivTek Induct 500 Air Treatment Systems for new Ambulances

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Approve Appointment of Councilwoman Coretta Houge as Delegate and Councilwoman Yolanda Haynes as Alternate to the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG)

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Oakland County celebrates the launch of the new $61 million radio system from Motorola outside of Southfield City Hall.

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It can be dangerous, and it can prevent you from doing the job that you’ve sworn to do.”

The new P-25 system is an upgrade to the county’s 20-year-old radio system, which was implemented in 2005. The county has been using this new system since January 2024. It allows for seamless radio communication across Oakland County, even where it was previously unavailable or was interrupted due to dead spots within the county.

The new system is integrated into the Michigan Public Safety Communication System and connects 2,231 public safety agencies and 126 dispatch centers around the state, which are also operating on the system. According to a press release from Oakland County, the new system supports 41 fire departments, 34 police agencies, seven public safety agencies and 20 dispatch centers in the county.

The funding comes from 911 surcharg-

es on phone bills and $5 million from the Oakland County Board of Commissioners’ general fund.

During the press conference, it was stressed how significant this technology change will be during the NFL Draft in Detroit later this month.

The countywide radio system equips first responders with over 6,000 new radios and 20 upgraded 911 dispatch centers, including one in Southfield.

Southfield’s new dispatch center was updated in November last year and seats up to seven dispatchers.

Southfield Police Lt. Teresa Young emphasized the importance of this new radio system.

“Radio communications is one of the most important aspects of officer safety outside of outstanding training,” Young said. “In Southfield, we discovered that our old radio system was not meeting our officers’ needs, and over time, it was a real officer safety issue. Officers were consistently losing signal within city limits. They lost signal

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“By the time they got done with all four shopping centers, they could house a half a million people, essentially, in bomb shelters. So, the government turned around and released the material to Northland because they felt that it was important. So construction drawings were done in 1952, construction in 1953 and there was a grand opening in March of 1954,” Koptek said.

Northland would become enclosed in the 1970s, following an enclosed shopping center that Gruen designed in Minneapolis in 1956.

Following its heyday, Northland began to see a decline around the 1980s, according to Kopytek. In 2015, Northland would close its doors.

Southfield Mayor Ken Siver has lived in the city for 57 years, having moved to Southfield when he was 21.

“I’ve lived near Northland most of my adult life, so I’d walk to Northland in nice weather,” he said. “I shopped it to the end, from 1963 to 2015. In 1963, I didn’t work at Northland, but I had a job as a chauffeur driving people to Northland who wanted to shop there because it was a regional center. I did that while I was a student at Oakland

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When Northland opened in 1954, it drew people from all over to Southfield. At one point, the Southfield mall had the highest sales of any shopping center in the United States.

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every time we had to leave the city, and we had no way of communicating or listening to radio traffic of surrounding jurisdictions.”

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard addressed transparency concerns and explained that the new system is encrypted.

“Our last system was encrypted, OpenSky. We believe it’s important to be encrypted because our adversaries are not dumb. They’re utilizing scanners to listen to response. We know that the teams in Mumbai were listening to and actually watching video coverage

of what the police were doing to thwart their deadly efforts. And so if we don’t have the ability to communicate our strategy, let’s say it’s a hostage situation — without them knowing what we’re about to do — that’s going to put lives at risk.”

Bouchard added, “For the average person that just wants to hear what’s going on, I understand that interest, but the dangers associated with us not being able to have our strategy, our response and our capability private in the moment when it’s happening can cause lives to be lost.”

For more information, visit oakgov.com and search “Enhanced Public Safety with New Radio System.”

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Photo by Patricia O’Blenes Southfield’s dispatch center was one of the 20 dispatch centers in Oakland County that received updates. The new dispatch center fits up to seven dispatchers.

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and blue flag irises, and that fox sedges and ferns do well in rain gardens and are a great way to add texture. For beginners, FOTR offers rain garden kits, which is how HeikkilaStafiej started her rain gardens.

“Another thing that we suggest for some folks that are new to rain gardening, and maybe they don’t want to start in their front yard, they could do what I did. I started one in my backyard, taking rainwater off of my garage. So, I started there with some of my favorite purple flowers. I’m also a lover of the color purple; there are so many beautiful native purple flowers. I think I put that one in 2020. In 2021, I put another rain garden in the front,” Heikkila-Stafiej said. She said that she’s planning on ripping up some of her lawn to plant wild strawberries, since they are a great ground cover.

Pat McLamore, the president of Southfield Parks and Garden Club, emphasized the importance of research when planning a garden.

“I always tell people, ‘Do your research. Understand where you’re going to put your rain garden.’ I can tell you general information about it, but if you don’t understand where you want to put it or what the area is, whether or not it’s conducive to even put a rain garden in, then that information is for naught,” she said.

She recommended planting native, noninvasive plants when installing a rain garden. She said the Southfield Parks and Garden Club is working with the Southfield Historical Society and the Detroit Chapter of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, an international nonprofit organization that “protects the natural world through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitats.” Through this partnership, native plants will be installed in a roughly 300-square-foot space at the Mary Thompson farmhouse to display native plants that Thompson would’ve grown.

McLamore added that anyone interested in volunteering or joining the Southfield Parks and Garden Club is welcome to attend one of the meetings, which are held from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the first Tuesday of every month, April through October in Room 111 of the Parks and Recreation Department building at 26000 Evergreen Road.

Registration for Southfield Rain Gardens 101 is not required if attending in person. The event will also be held virtually, and participants can register at therouge.org/ earthday2024.

To learn more, visit therouge.org.

For more information about the Southfield Parks and Garden Club, visit www. southfieldparksandgarden.org, email sfldpg club@gmail.com or call Pat McLamore at (248) 227-2812.

Photo provided by Jaclyn Heikkila-Stafiej Danielle Wittrop is photographed with her rain garden that won the 2023 Dearborn City Beautiful award. The Southfield Parks and Recreation Department and the Friends of the Rouge are partnering to host a free presentation about rain gardens from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Earth Day, April 22, in the Southfield Pavilion, 26000 Evergreen Road.

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University, so I would drive dorm kids to Northland.”

As a firm believer in adaptive reuse, Siver said he is eager to see how Northland is reimagined as a modern version of the “15-minute neighborhood,” which is “virtually everything you need is at your doorstep within a maximum 15-minute walk.”

Siver said the new development at Northland will take roughly five years to complete, and around $403 million is planned for the first phase, but the numbers could change due to inflation. Siver said funding for the 100-acre property comes from $60 million in tax incentives offered by the Brownfield Redevelopment Authority, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and investors that Contour Development Group has lined up. The city of Southfield has contributed $20 million, which will be returned to the city through brownfield tax credits in the coming years.

“It’s going to become a destination once again,” he said.

He added that a tremendous amount of underground work has been done to storm drains, storm sewers, sanitary lines, water lines, and utility lines, as well as cleanup.

“The thing that everybody needs to know is there’s a vision for the property. But that vision is going to get tweaked as it goes along because it’s going to depend on the marketplace,” Siver said. “We will be returning to Hudson’s as Hudson’s City Market, with food, dining, entertainment, home furnishings, retail, a boutique hotel and maybe loft apartments; the other spaces will be live/work spaces. It won’t be a mall again, but it will have neighborhood retail. It’ll have a police station and green walking space for the residents as well as anybody that comes to visit.”

According to Contour Development Group, 1,500 modern apartments housed in 14 six-story buildings will be built at the site. They will feature a rooftop terrace, a swimming pool, a party room for social gatherings, a lounge area, a fitness center and a yoga room.

For more information about Bruce Kopytek, visit editionsbk.com.

For more information about the Northland Center, visit northlandcitycenter.com.

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Documents regarding this appeal are available for review prior to the public hearing. Written comments, questions, and requests to review these materials must be received prior to 4:00 p.m. on the date of the hearing and should be directed to the Zoning Board of Appeals, Department of Building & Safety Engineering, 1st Floor Public Works Building, 26000 Evergreen Road,

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PRESENT: Councilmembers: Daniel Brightwell, Yolanda Haynes, Charles Hicks, Coretta Houge, and Michael Ari Mandelbaum. EXCUSED: Councilmember Nancy Banks, Councilmember Lloyd Crews, and Mayor Kenson Siver. ALSO PRESENT: Administrator Fred Zorn, Clerk Janet Jackson, Attorney Dawn King, and Planner Terry Croad.

Approve PSLU 23-0013, the Special Use Request by Mike Semma, Atlas Consulting on behalf of Sari Group LLC, to a permit a used vehicle sales operation with vehicle repair accessory to the vehicle sales on property located at 24450 Telegraph, Southfeld, Michigan (Sidwell Parcel 24-28-151-006)

Approve PSP 23-0003, the Site Plan Review Request of Moshe Goldberg, to convert an existing 4,830sf building from general offce to medical offce use on property located at 24725 Greenfeld Road, Southfeld, Michigan (Parcel #24-25229-030)

Approve PSLU23-0017, the Special Use Request of Mark Yaldo, 10 Southfeld Sunoco, Inc., to permit addition of liquor sales to an existing gas station/convenience store at 24848 Southfeld Road, Southfeld, Michigan (Parcel 24-25-101-001)

Approve PSP 23-0017, the Site Plan Review request of Mark Yaldo, 10 Southfeld Sunoco, Inc., to permit addition of liquor sales to an existing gas station/convenience store at 24848 Southfeld Road, Southfeld, Michigan (Parcel 24-25-101-001)

Approve Bid for Security Gates

Approve Bid for Solid Waste, Yard Waste, Recycling Collection and Disposal

The meeting adjourned at 10:30p.m.

Approved minutes are available on the City’s website at www.cityofsouthfeld.com.

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CITY OF SOUTHFIELD ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS

APPEAL NOTICE REGARDING ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS CASE #24-10

The City of Southfeld Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing regarding:

The appellant, Brian Crossley, representing the owner, WJBK Broadcasting, Inc., is requesting the following from the Board:

A variance of two feet of fence height for proposed security fencing (6 feet permitted, 8 feet proposed).

The property is located on the north side of Nine Mile Rd, between Southfeld Rd and Providence Dr, Sidwell Parcel #2425-376-001, located at 16550 W Nine Mile Rd, zoned (TV-R) Television Radio Offce Studio.

This appeal is to Section 5.37-1, Article 4, Chapter 45 of the Southfeld City Code, more commonly known as the Zoning Ordinance.

This is a public hearing. If interested, you are encouraged to appear in

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CITY OF LATHRUP VILLAGE OAKLAND COUNTY, MICHIGAN NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

DELINQUENT WATER & SEWER BILLING SPECIAL ASSESSMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN:

1. The City Council of the City of Lathrup Village, Oakland County, Michigan has adopted a resolution directing the City Administrator to prepare a tentative special assessment roll including all delinquent water/ sewer billings, and to schedule a public hearing on the advisability of proceeding.

2. That April 15, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. in the Municipal Building at 27400 Southfeld Road, Lathrup Village, Michigan be set as the time and place of a Public Hearing for the purposes of reviewing the Tentative Roll and to afford a hearing to all interested persons all matters bearing upon any needful correction or revision to the Roll and the propriety of its confrmation.

DESCRIPTION OF SPECIAL ASSESSMENT ROLL

The Special Assessment Roll consists of the following properties located in the City of Lathrup Village having the following water & sewer utility identifcation sidwell numbers:

3. If the City Council confrms the tentative roll, a special assessment will be levied against the properties contained in the roll. Act 186 of the Public Acts of Michigan 1973, as amended, provides that the special assessment must be protested at the hearing held for the purpose of confrming the Special Assessment Roll before the Michigan Tax Tribunal may acquire jurisdiction of any dispute involving the Special Assessment Roll will be heard, if at all, at some time in the future pursuant to notice given as required by law. Appearance and protest at such a hearing is required in order to appeal the amount of the special assessment to the Michigan Tax Tribunal. An owner of, or party in interest, in the property to be assessed, or his or her agent, may appear in person to protest the special assessment or may protest the special assessment by letter fled with the City Clerk at or prior to the time of the hearing, in which case appearance in person is not required.

This notice is given by the City Council.

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Microwave stolen at gunpoint

SOUTHFIELD — Around 8:06 p.m. March 17, loss prevention officers saw someone take a microwave from a store in the 28000 block of Telegraph Road.

When confronted by loss prevention staff, the suspect walked away and entered a vehicle. The driver reportedly pointed a firearm at loss prevention and fled.

Box cutter pulled on relative

SOUTHFIELD — Officers responded to a fight between family members March 17 on Fairfax Street.

One of the individuals allegedly threatened the other with a box cutter and was arrested.

Neighbor assaulted over package complaint

SOUTHFIELD — At 3:57 p.m. March 20, a resident accused their neighbor of stealing a package.

The suspect then brought a friend to the resident’s home, in the 26000 block of Berg Road. The neighbor and friend allegedly pushed through the front door and assaulted the resident. Both suspects were located and arrested following the incident.

Man reports tax documents missing

SOUTHFIELD — A man said he left a bag with important documents inside an associate’s home in the 29000 block of Rock Creek Drive between 3:40 p.m. and 3:55 p.m. March 20 while he returned to his home to run some errands.

Upon returning to the associate’s house, he noticed some of his tax documents were gone.

Woman robbed at gunpoint

SOUTHFIELD — At 7:17 a.m. March 24, an unknown suspect pointed a gun at a woman and took money from her, then left the business, located in the 27000 block of Northwestern Highway.

— Kathryn Pentiuk

Address from page 6A

The Nine Mile corridor revitalization is a grant-funded public improvement project supported by Farmington, Farmington Hills, Ferndale, Hazel Park, Oak Park and Southfield to create a 10-foot-wide pathway between the communities.

This year, the Southfield Public Arts Commission will install three new pieces, including the “Nine Mile Crossing” sculpture, by Sebastian (Enrique Carbajal), which will stand 98 feet tall at the intersection of Nine Mile and the Southfield Freeway, as well as two pieces by the Nordin brothers of the Detroit Design Center: “The Key,” which will be located at 10 Mile Road and Northwestern Highway, and “Brothers,” at Nine Mile and Beech roads. He said two murals will be installed at Beech Woods Recreation Center “any day now” that were created by artists who won the mural competition held by the Friends of Southfield Public Arts.

The mayor also shared some economic developments, such as the opening of the Costco business center, 21110 Northwestern Highway, and Lucid Motors opening in Southfield.

“A mob was out there waiting to get in at 7 a.m. on opening day,” he said of Costco. “They did $800,000 in sales on the first day. If you haven’t been back, they’re busy all the time. And they hired a whole bunch of Southfield people who are local people,” the mayor said. “Lucid Motors is coming to Southfield; they’re across the street in Travelers Tower, taking 33,000 square feet of space, that’s two floors and 262 jobs, and they are hiring.”

Siver emphasized the importance of adaptive reuse in the Northland City Center redevelopment project. “As a society, we throw so much away. … We’re keeping the original mall because it was so well constructed.” He said an engineering study showed that seven stories could be built on

top of the original foundation of Northland.

Similarly, the adaptive reuse of two vacant elementary schools will see housing conversions. McKinley Place condominiums are underway with condos ranging in size from 950 square feet to 2,500 square feet, and on the playground will be duplex condos, at around 2,200 square feet. All 40 units will have two-car garages. Construction on the John Grace Arms senior apartments will begin in May with the addition of 60 apartment units for senior housing.

“We have 508 units of subsidized senior housing. The Southfield Non-Profit Housing Corporation does not advertise subsidized senior housing because word of mouth is, ‘This a great place to live.’ The units are all up to date, great activities for our seniors there, and they’re safe. There are cameras in the halls, parking lot, lobby and all that.”

Residents raised concerns about a community pool, stricter code enforcement for litterers and noisy neighbors, cleanup efforts for litter, worries that blight moving into the area could diminish property values and the plan for the growing deer population.

Siver said 62% of residents voted to cull the deer herd.

“But it doesn’t make sense for us to do it because deer don’t respect municipal boundaries,” he said.

Siver said he was at a meeting a few weeks ago in Farmington with local mayors and the Department of Natural Resources and that the best way to control the deer population is through sharpshooters.

“It’s the cheapest and most effective, but a lot of people don’t want people shooting off guns. So, birth control does not work. They do it with dart guns, and you can miss, and it’s expensive. And then you have to do a booster. They will not trap and release them because deer have specific diseases, and they’re acclimated to certain parts of the state. So the DNR did tell us that in January we can do a bow and arrow hunt, and then I heard from people, ‘Oh, you don’t want to do that because it’ll just injure them

and won’t necessarily kill them.’ The whole thing is a mess, quite honestly.”

Siver referred residents to the Southfield Solutions app to report code violations.

“It’s a complicated issue, but when I became mayor, I cut my office funding … because I wanted another code officer. So we have six people working in code. And I will tell you, I report things all the time, and there is a site called Southfield Solutions. We regularly monitor that. But people play games. Why do we have two large hotels that are still vacant? We’re just tearing down two houses because we have slumlords that play games. And we have something called due process.”

He added that he encourages residents to pay attention to the upcoming judicial election to elect judges that are going to give more than a “slap on the wrist” and who will maintain a “Southfield standard.”

“We have fought very hard to keep our standards up,” he said. “Anybody can come here and live here. But you got to be on our program. You got to keep your property up. You’ve got to do the right thing.”

In her remarks, Garrett said that she continued in her role as mayor because of the great support of the team in Lathrup Village.

“I want to say that without the team

that Lathrup Village has, the resilience that they have shown, the support, and just the compassion. And I’m trying to think of all the great words to say about them. But I am so grateful. And I want to say it publicly that we have the team that we have,” Garrett said.

Garrett commended the programming by the Lathrup Village Downtown Development Authority that brought 16 community events to Lathrup Village, with over 1,176 attendees to events such as the Tri-City Business Workshops, Southfield Road corridor cleanups, the Juneteenth celebration and the Lathrup Village Music Festival.

“Since 2020, the district has seen more than $684,000 of public and $920,000 of private investment,” she said.

Additionally, the DDA installed 44 hanging flower baskets throughout the district, and three pedestrian walk signs will be installed in early 2025 to increase pedestrian safety.

She noted new Lathrup Village businesses, including Style Guru, the Event House and 44 Burrito. “I was very happy to see all of the new businesses that we have.”

For more information, visit cityofsouthfield.com and search “Mayor Dr. Ken Siver 2024 State of the City Address.”

To stay up to date about Lathrup Village, visit lathrupvillage.org.

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