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2026-09-22 - Community Development Committee

Summary

Built from YouTube auto-generated captions of the City's combined morning broadcast of the Committee on Appointments, Fiscal Committee, Community Development Committee and Committee of the Whole, and the posted agenda. Names and figures are as captioned and may be misspelled; votes were by voice unless noted.

  • Accepted the Transportation Asset Management Plan, with a request for an executive summary before the evening City Commission meeting.
  • Approved a third-party agreement with AECOM Great Lakes for traffic signal optimization.
  • Approved road safety audit agreements with MDOT for Kalamazoo Avenue (28th Street to MLK Street) and Michigan Street (Grand River to Plymouth Avenue), each with a local cost not exceeding $2,500.
  • Approved the sale of 834 Livingston Ave NE (as printed on the agenda; the captions suggested 835) to Wilson Whitman Homes for $5,000 and the sale of a portion of 1911 Fuller Ave NE to Water Tower Place LLC for $45,000. See Livingston and Fuller Avenue Rezonings.
  • Accepted trail and access easements and approved a crossing and consent agreement for the Oxford Trail (Wealthy to Oxford) improvements.
  • Adjourned about 9:35 AM.

Agenda

  1. Accept the Transportation Asset Management Plan.
  2. Third-party agreement with AECOM Great Lakes, Inc. for the previously approved FY26 Traffic Signal Optimization project (MDOT Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality grant), local spend authorization $49,900.
  3. Agreement with MDOT for a Road Safety Audit on Kalamazoo Avenue between 28th Street and Martin Luther King Street, local cost not to exceed $2,500.
  4. Agreements with MDOT for a Road Safety Audit on Michigan Street between the Grand River and Plymouth Avenue, local cost not to exceed $2,500.
  5. Sale of City-owned property at 834 Livingston Ave NE to Wilson Whitman Homes for $5,000.
  6. Sale of a portion of City-owned property at 1911 Fuller Ave NE to Water Tower Place, LLC for $45,000.
  7. Accept trail and access easements for the Oxford Trail (Wealthy to Oxford) improvements.
  8. Crossing and Consent Agreement for the Oxford Trail (Wealthy to Oxford) improvements.

Sources

Note: The City's YouTube stream "Tuesday Morning Committee Meetings" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m25BPzxMfI) appears (from its title) to cover the morning committees of this day together.

Video

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