CITY COUNCIL AGENDA

CITY OF NOVI
Regular City Council Meeting
November 20, 2023 | 7:00 PM
Council Chambers | Novi Civic Center | 45175 Ten Mile Road
(248) 347-0460

 

CALL TO ORDER

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

ROLL CALL – Mayor Fischer, Council Members Casey, Heintz, Smith, Staudt, Thomas

APPROVAL OF AGENDA

APPOINTMENT OF MAYOR PRO TEM

PUBLIC HEARINGS

PRESENTATIONS

REPORTS

1. Manager/Staff
   
   
2. Attorney

AUDIENCE COMMENT – In order to hear all citizen comments at a reasonable hour, the City Council requests that speakers respect the three-minute time limit. This is not a question-answer session. However, it is an opportunity to voice your thoughts with City Council. Speakers wishing to display visual materials through the City’s audiovisual system must provide the materials to the City Clerk’s Office no later than 12:00 P.M. the day of the meeting. The materials cannot be changed before the meeting.

CONSENT AGENDA REMOVALS AND APPROVALS – All items listed under Consent Agenda are considered routine by the City Council and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Council Member so requests, in which event the item will be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered at the end of the normal Agenda.

MATTERS FOR COUNCIL ACTION

1. Adoption of a resolution authorizing approval of a contract with the Michigan Department of Transportation to agree to the rights and obligations associated with the rehabilitation of Wixom Road from 10 Mile Road to Hartwick Drive with the City of Novi’s estimated responsibility for construction in the amount of $3,531,612.37.
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2. Initial review of Planned Rezoning Overlay (PRO) eligibility of the request of Toll Brothers, LLC, for Elm Creek, JZ22-28, to rezone from Office Service Technology (OST) and Low-Rise Multiple Family (RM-1) to Low-Rise Multiple Family (RM-1) on land located on the west side of Meadowbrook Road, south of Twelve Mile Road in Section 14. The applicant is proposing to utilize the Planned Rezoning Overlay option to rezone and develop a 134-unit multiple-family townhome development on approximately 37 acres of land. Under the new PRO Ordinance, this initial review by City Council is an opportunity to review and comment on the eligibility of the proposal.
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3. Discussion on the process to fill the open Council seat.
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4. Consider Resolution Delaying Council Committee Appointments.
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CONSENT AGENDA REMOVALS FOR COUNCIL ACTION – Consent Agenda items which have been removed for discussion and/or action.

AUDIENCE COMMENT – In order to hear all citizen comments at a reasonable hour, the City Council requests that speakers respect the three-minute time limit. This is not a question-answer session. However, it is an opportunity to voice your thoughts with City Council. Speakers wishing to display visual materials through the City’s audiovisual system must provide the materials to the City Clerk’s Office no later than 12:00 P.M. the day of the meeting. The materials cannot be changed before the meeting.

COMMITTEE REPORTS

MAYOR AND COUNCIL ISSUES COMMUNICATIONS

CONSENT AGENDA – Background information for Consent Agenda items is available for review at the City Clerk’s Office.

1. Approve Minutes of:
   October 23, 2023 - Regular Meeting
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2. Approval to award engineering design services to AECOM for the 2024 Neighborhood Sidewalk Repair Program in the amount of $42,500.
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3. Approval of the request from Goddard School Annex (JSP22-0059) at 48600 Grand River Avenue (parcel no. 50-22-17-126-013) for a variance from the Design and Construction Standards Section 11-256(b) to eliminate the sidewalk requirement along 12 Mile Road.
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4. Approval of the request from Goddard School Annex (JSP22-0059) at 48600 Grand River Avenue (parcel no. 50-22-17-126-013) for a variance from the Design and Construction Standards Section 11-256(b) to pay into the City Sidewalk Fund in lieu of construction of the boardwalk along Grand River Avenue.
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5. Acceptance of a highway easement and temporary grading easement for completion of sidewalk at 39415 Ten Mile Road in the amount of $30,000.
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6. Adoption of Resolution for application to the Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) grant for construction of a pathway connector between the ITC Trail and Bosco Fields park.
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7. Approval to accept the Bill of Sale for the ITC Trail Comfort Station per the requirements of the Terra PRO Agreement and site plan, JSP17-0052. The site is along the north side of Nine Mile Road at Garfield Road.
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8. Authorization to close on the purchase of property (Parcel No. 22-24-301-013) located on Meadowbrook Road between Grand River Avenue and Ten Mile Road, approximately 4.51 acres for the purchase price of Two Hundred Ninety-Five Thousand Dollars ($295,000.00), subject to the existing building and use restrictions and easements of record.
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9. Approval of claims and warrants – Warrant 1143
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ADJOURNMENT

SCHEDULED MEETINGS – All Regular Council meetings are held in the Council Chambers unless otherwise noted. For a complete listing of scheduled meetings, please visit the Event Calendar at cityofnovi.org.

NOTICE: People with disabilities needing accommodations for effective participation in this meeting should contact the City Clerk (248) 347-0456 at least two working days in advance of the meeting. An attempt will be made to make reasonable accommodations.