Rezoning Quotes

We have to consider what the impact is going to be across the street. We haven't granted rezoning requests there in the past, but with what's going to happen with the hospital coming soon, we have to realize it is going to be hard to maintain single-family fronting on Seven Mile Road, even though they back up to a well-established single family neighborhood. These are a lot of things we need to discuss. - Jennifer Frey

This property is part of the natural furniture ... that makes it the pristine river it is. That's the major reason a number of [environmentalists] oppose this rezoning. It's urbanizing a pristine river. - Mariella Smith

This is not an open-ended rezoning. It's like a planned unit development for commercial. What's shown on the site plan is all that can go there. - Patsy Christie

They've asked me to develop criteria for a phase of a subdivision so that [residents] could seek a new zoning district. There needed to be criteria in place in order to initiate a rezoning, so we've worked on crafting the wording with [the legal department]. - Kevin Russell

Jack Reynolds (the developer's attorney) told me that a simple language change in their development proposal resulted in the need to rezone the site. They changed the language from 'senior living' to 'age-restricted' and apparently, doing so requires a rezoning if they want to develop the site in the way that they propose. - Jeff Murray

In the past when we have had objections (to rezoning requests), we have gone back to the comp plan. - Jim Martin

I oppose the prison and rezoning for the purpose of a prison. - Tom Curtis

Hear this now. We are not opposed to this rezoning. We're just asking for some protection. - Ted Korfhage

At the time, the county planning commission strongly recommended that the township approve the rezoning so that the big retail center could be placed farther away from the roadway, so that we could work with the township and Wal-Mart to develop an access plan to minimize traffic congestion on 310. Realistically, now we have limited options available to develop appropriate access. - Jerry Brems