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Wyandotte Zoning Board Meeting - 6/4/25

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Source
Vimeo / Wyandotte ConneX
Date
2025-06-04
Location
Wayne County, MI
Material
Transcript
Extent
936 words · about 6 min
Collected
2026-06-10

Transcript

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001Okay we're going to get started here thanks everyone for joining us the City of Wyandotte zoning Board of Appeals and adjustments today is Wednesday June 4th and we're in council chambers at City Hall ginger roll call please member Duran here member Flaxman here member Gillen yeah member Olson here member Simchuk here member Truppiano here member DeSanto member McDonald and member Wayne claw are absent okay thank you all right no communications to present while we have minutes from the May 7th meeting if you hopefully you all looked at those entertain a motion to approve motion to approve I'll support it support by mr. Simchuk all in favor I opposed okay okay we have one item on the agenda this evening and so we have new business how what we're going to do are you Scott okay

002we're going to read the appeal you can come to the podium when now is finer when we're done once I read it you can give your name and address for the record and just give tell us what you're doing and then we will ask questions okay normally we would take questions from the audience but there's no one here either in support or opposition sometimes there's a little both and then once we're done with questions we'll close the public portion and we'll vote tonight so you'll know before you leave okay okay all right so appeal 3426 Scott Van Beek appellant has applied to the Zoning Board of Appeals and adjustments for a building permit for the construction of a new single-family dwelling at former 1702 4th Street now known as 1704 4th Street wind at lots

00347 and 48 in a Roarig subdivision in an RT zoning district where their proposed conflicts with section 90 190.2 90 of the ordinance which states a maximum of 35% of lot area is allowed to be covered by structures in an RT zoning district proposed home will exceed allowable lot coverage by 189.98 square feet resulting in a lot coverage area of 38.17 percent okay okay so so I'm good I built one of these on the city lot and I figured out what I didn't like about my current house try to build another one and it's a little bigger than it yeah but it's everything I want I need that bigger garage because I can't have a workbench in there okay and you currently live on fifth right yeah and you're in moving 1841 fifth you're gonna

004be moved if this house is I'll be moving into this house and selling now gotcha okay all right um rich any questions for mr. van beek I really know nothing it's straightforward and the plans here okay anything I'm good James the fifth Street is the current address of the house 1841 fifth is the current address that I live in now okay so that's the one that you don't like that well I like don't get me wrong it's just there's a couple tweaks that's my first brand you know that was my first brand new house I moved here you know long story short I moved here ten years ago I grew up Grand Rapids we lived in Kansas City I hadn't moved here and I bought a fixer upper on 23rd Street fixed that rented it

005for a while sold it another one on 6th Street and then I went to Southgate for a short spell and I still currently own a building on Poplar Street that's kind of my move back to but then I built a brand new one and a couple tweaks that I want okay so you got this lot you're gonna build a new one it's a nice corner lot by the way yeah yeah the other lot actually that I'm on is a little bigger too okay yeah you're right over by thirst parlor right yeah yeah I get to hear the trains all the time yeah I live in Northline that's all about trains yeah I don't have anything okay sorry James Dave anything only it's gonna be a two-story craftsman yeah the city did actually I'd the what

006is it the Housing Commission that they didn't want me to do the rent because I was that's a corner lot but I didn't want to do the wraparound porch so I presented them with two different options okay and they wanted the two-story okay okay it's more in the neighborhood okay great anything else Dave Mike no okay anything else from you sir no I'm good all right you can have a seat and there's no one in out in the audience we can ask questions or that wants to ask questions from the neighborhood so we'll close public portion entertain a motion motion to approve okay support Keith that was you okay thank you so we have a motion by mr. flocksman support by truth be and mr. Truppiano any other discussion good to see a house going

007on now yeah it's gonna be nice look good are you gonna rent the other one not that it matters you can sell I got a kid 16 that wants to go to flight school oh yeah you need money you need money on her starting life with the extra debt yeah I'm doing the same thing so yeah okay good good job all right ginger can you call roll please member Duran yes member Flaxman yes member Dylan yes member Olson yes member some Chuck yes member true piano yes okay it's that easy thank you if you have any questions or need paperwork or anything you can check with engineering and all right will the permit be ready okay not probably not until Friday yeah it takes like three to five days thank you thanks guys thank you

008have a good night all right we don't have any other business anybody have anything they want to discuss the only thing I did see is I drove down Eureka at the viaduct we're doing a nice job at landscaping and finally somebody's taking an interest in landscaping the viaduct I noticed that they're changing the grades so it's not gonna wash out yeah I landscaped that back in 1992 okay when we did the improvements over there and put the but then it kind of went down about ten years after nobody's looked after it yeah but it looks really nice what they're doing they're putting some money in there yeah good glad to see it yeah yeah all right nothing else further any other business to discuss we did talk about July 16th that's our next meeting by

009the way in July we always have it the third week not the set first week because of the 4th of July and for the because of the street fair and so we will have three appeals for July 16th all right we don't have any communications to put on file so motion to adjourn all right all right thank you everyone for watching short and sweet meeting tonight be safe enjoy the summer and God bless Wyandotte

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