Submitted by whitemice on Sun, 04/20/2025 - 08:45
The municipal agenda for the Planning Commission meeting on 2025-04-24 is 👉here👈
Text Amendments
There are two minor text amendments proposed to the zoning ordinance. Both would take what are currently exceptional cases and place them under administrative review.
Submitted by whitemice on Sun, 02/09/2025 - 13:46
The municipal agenda for the Planning Commission meeting on 2025-02-13 is 👉here👈
2160 Celebration Dr NE
UPDATE 2025-03-13: This development is dead, the developer has listed the property for sale.
Submitted by whitemice on Wed, 08/07/2024 - 23:31
Submitted by whitemice on Thu, 07/11/2024 - 07:25
There will be a joint meeting of the Planning Commission and the City Commission on July 16th at 11:30am - 1:30pm in the City Commission Chambers to discuss the adoption of the new Master Plan. The 👉agenda item for this meeting👈 contains the proposed adoption schedule.
Submitted by whitemice on Mon, 05/20/2024 - 12:01
Status
UPDATE 2024-11-05: Updated to include the applicability of table 5.2.08.G.1 related to maximum ADU size.
UPDATE 2024-04-23: On 2024-04-23 the City Commission adopted a collection of zoning reforms which included significant changes to Accessory Dwelling Units. All documents and commentary prior to this date should be disregarded.
Disclaimer & Purpose
This is not an official document; this document is not endorsed by the Grand Rapids Planning Commission, nor are its authors qualified to present legal opinions.
The purpose of this document is to provide an introduction to the regulations related to Accessory Dwelling Units in the city of Grand Rapids, MI as of late May, 2024. Within the Zoning the topic of Accessory Dwelling Units are directly addressed in section [5.9.03]. Other sections of the code may still impact the development of ADUs so we have attempted to cross-reference the most relevant sections.
Submitted by whitemice on Sun, 04/21/2024 - 19:26
In response to the currently proposed zoning reforms the city has assembled 👉an extensive FAQ👈; I used data from that document as the basis for the 👉"The Myth Of The Out-Of-State Housing Hoover"👈 post. That post lays out the data making it clear that the phenomenon of out-of-state developers collecting housing en masse has not happened here. Beyond laying that NIMBY trope to rest this document contains some particularly interesting nuggets which are worth calling out.
Submitted by whitemice on Mon, 04/15/2024 - 07:35
On the fourth Tuesday of this month (2024-04-23) the City Commission will be voting on the suite of zoning reforms which have been in development since the joint meeting of the Planning Commission and the City Commission in July of last year (2023).
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