2008 Woodie Awards
Planning Commission sets 2008 goals
CMU's Orlik re-elected as chairman
By: Frank Wisswell
Issue date: 2/8/08 Section: News
Students may be living in violation of Mount Pleasant's master plan for the city, and they may not even know it.
"The planning commission noticed we had a problem," said City Planner Tony Kulick.
Kulick said 90 percent of the properties on Main Street between High Street and downtown are non-conforming uses. On the city's master plan, the homes are zoned for single-family residential.
"The master plan wants single-family," Kulick said. "The uses there are incompatible."
The Planning Commission listed what they're calling the Main Street Historic Overlay as one of their major goals for 2008 during their meeting Thursday.
Kulick said over time - in a process he said will take years - the city plans to convert houses on Main Street.
"We're at a unique time," Kulick said.
He said the city plans offer the owners of unoccupied homes in the area to convert their properties.
"(This is an) opportunity to allow the owner to make a good return," he said.
Kulick said the city wants to convert the homes to two-story properties with "low-impact offices" on the bottom floor and residential properties on the second floor.
Resolving the area on the corner of Broomfield and Crawford roads also made the Planning Commission's list of goals in 2008. Unfortunately, pending legislation has left the commission powerless to resolve the issue.
"It's totally outside of our hands," said planning commission chair Peter Orlik. "We're not in control of its destiny."
Orlik, CMU's Broadcast and Cinematic Arts department chairman, was re-elected as chair unanimously at Thursday's meeting.
Commissioner Mindé Lux thanked Orlik for his service to the commission at the meeting.
"I think he's done an excellent job and I look forward to him chairing in 2008," Lux said.
Commissioner Tim Wolff was unanimously elected as the planning commission's vice-chair.
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"The planning commission noticed we had a problem," said City Planner Tony Kulick.
Kulick said 90 percent of the properties on Main Street between High Street and downtown are non-conforming uses. On the city's master plan, the homes are zoned for single-family residential.
"The master plan wants single-family," Kulick said. "The uses there are incompatible."
The Planning Commission listed what they're calling the Main Street Historic Overlay as one of their major goals for 2008 during their meeting Thursday.
Kulick said over time - in a process he said will take years - the city plans to convert houses on Main Street.
"We're at a unique time," Kulick said.
He said the city plans offer the owners of unoccupied homes in the area to convert their properties.
"(This is an) opportunity to allow the owner to make a good return," he said.
Kulick said the city wants to convert the homes to two-story properties with "low-impact offices" on the bottom floor and residential properties on the second floor.
Resolving the area on the corner of Broomfield and Crawford roads also made the Planning Commission's list of goals in 2008. Unfortunately, pending legislation has left the commission powerless to resolve the issue.
"It's totally outside of our hands," said planning commission chair Peter Orlik. "We're not in control of its destiny."
Orlik, CMU's Broadcast and Cinematic Arts department chairman, was re-elected as chair unanimously at Thursday's meeting.
Commissioner Mindé Lux thanked Orlik for his service to the commission at the meeting.
"I think he's done an excellent job and I look forward to him chairing in 2008," Lux said.
Commissioner Tim Wolff was unanimously elected as the planning commission's vice-chair.
news@cm-life.com
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