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Ann Arbor Design Review Board 11/13/24

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Source
YouTube / CTN Ann Arbor
Date
2024-11-13
Location
Washtenaw County, MI
Material
Transcript
Extent
799 words · about 5 min
Collected
2026-06-05

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001e e e by Zoom or by phone by calling 877 852 5247 or 78899 and entering meeting ID 974 9412 this information is also available on the publish agenda in the Public Notices section of the city website and on the broadcast of this meeting on CTN Channel 16 AT&T channel 99 and online at www.a2gov.org slatch CN uh the volunteer resident design review board appointed by the mayor and confirmed by city council Fosters excellence in an Arbor's built environment design and advises applicants on meeting downtown design guidelines first the applicant presents their proposed project for 15 minutes then the board discusses the design after that members of the public can comment for up to three minutes each um so Jill if you would call the role sure uh Jeff Perkins here Lori Singleton Tamara Burns here

002William Kinley here Richard Mitchell did you say you're here D oh I didn't hear my name yes I'm here sorry Wendy Ramson here John karski here you have a quorum all right thank you for that Jill uh next item on the agenda is approval of the agenda um if I could have a motion move second moved by dick and seconded by Tam any discussion about the agenda no all those all those in favor signify by saying I I I opposed same sign the agenda is approved and then on to approval of the minutes of our October 9 2024 design review board meeting if I could have a motion and second so moved all right uh moved by Wendy and supported by dick uh any discussion on the minutes of the October 9 meeting all those

003in favor signify by saying I I I oppos same sign minutes are approved and on to public comment Brittney thank you um right now we have no other participants in the um waiting room at this time all right should I keep this open for a bit or is there going to be another com public comment at the end of the meeting like we usually do there will be another public comment at the end of the meeting all right well if you call in hold on we'll we'll get back to you uh and on to regular business uh item dr2 24-5 Jill what's the deal on this so so uh this is 601 South Main Street um application and today um they notified me that they wanted to change the design layout of the canopies and

004switch to an L-shaped canopy instead of two single canopies um this is a very substantial change it'll also probably mean other site plan changes related to it and um in order to get thorough complete drawings of what they want to do and as well as um um some uh um drawings of the structures themselves which uh you you have not seen yet um I'm going to work with them to get all this information together and in the meantime the drb should postpone this to their December meeting which is December 11 2024 and we have I have talked to them about getting more site photos getting um more complete technical drawings of the can PS um getting clear examples that correspond with what they want to do and also uh those S modifications okay could I

005please have a motion to postpone this item so moved board uh moved by Tamara and supported by dick any further discussion all those in figures all those in favor signify by saying I I I post same sign uh 601 South Main Street is postponed guess until they get the rest of their materials in and Jill what what is the December meeting date again December 11 11 okay thank you there is one other item that came in for that meeting one on this will be postponed to Old business and then there will be something under new business do we know what it is yet uh it's on South University sorry I don't know the address um if you give me a second I think I can actually answer that one um it is attached to um

006128 South University um but I believe that they put the application in um under Forest Avenue but let me me verify that before I uh get quoted on it yep um the official address is 610 South Forest Avenue what what is the nature of that project let me see yeah it's basically just um buildings I do think it is something like that but for the description that I have it says an update to the original site plan that incorporates the adjacent parcel located at 610 South Forest Avenue the project will be an 18 story mixed use residential and Retail Tower Lobby amenity Leasing and retail space will be located on the ground floor with residential above and additional amenity space on the top floor oh okay I think I knew which one that is all

007right thank you for that Britney um moving on to unfinished business um looks like you've got some notes Here Britney I'll let you go ahead and run through these yeah give me a second sorry about that I'm opening the window now um yeah um so there are no updates on the status of the drb yet um it's not yet scheduled for Planning Commission consideration but it is likely to be scheduled for late December or January so fingers crossed with that um and then another thing that I have an update on is um that there is one drb petition um for uh six for 610 South Forest um and it's related to the 128 South University development right which you just mentioned okay anything else any other staff notes not from me Jill do you have

008anything you would like to add nothing from me okay all right thanks uh moving on to Communications um I'm not aware of any to the design review board there was none for this meeting okay all right this is moving very very quickly uh so we're we're on to the second uh public comment section Brittney there is no one waiting in the rating room so I see no speakers at this time all right well this is going to be the fastest meeting in designer boort history uh so unless anybody's got anything they want to discuss or bring up a motion to adjourn if uh anybody wants to tell us on vacation last time or uh support all right it was moved by Tamara and supported by Wendy any further discussion all those in favor signify by

009saying I I I I opposed same sign all right um for

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