City of Grosse Pointe recently issued the following announcement.
On August 16, 2021, the City of Grosse Pointe Planning Commission, which is comprised of the members of the City Council, will hold a public hearing on a request for conditional zoning of the 389 St. Clair Avenue property from the current single-family zoning to multi-family zoning. The City has received a conditional zoning application from Curtis Builders to allow the adaptive reuse of the Grosse Pointe School District Administration building by permitting multifamily use of the property. The application requests permission to convert the existing building at 389 St. Clair from school purposes to up to 23 residential dwelling units. The application also proposes multi-family zoning for construction of eight row house style townhomes on the Notre Dame side of the property where there is currently a parking lot bordered by a wooden fence. The application proposes to condition the requested Transition district zoning to allow only what is necessary to permit construction as shown in the application.
The existing 389 St. Clair building is actually comprised of two of the original Grosse Pointe Public Schools built side-by-side in the early 1900’s. It has been used primarily as an administration building for several decades. Up to 23 units of housing would be created by Curtis Builders using 2 floors of former classrooms/offices and the basement of the school building. There are proposed to be 40 surface lot parking spaces within the existing parking lot behind the school building to serve the development. Each of the proposed eight townhomes on Notre Dame would also have two contained parking spaces as part of the ground floor of each unit for a total of 16 covered, private parking spaces. The townhome height is proposed at no more than 35 feet, the same height limit as for single family dwellings. The Curtis Builders application and plan is posted online, click here, or may be viewed at City Hall.
The City of Grosse Pointe welcomes public comment on the conditional zoning application and plan. In-person comments will be taken at the public hearing as part of the regular Council meeting starting at 7:00 pm on August 16 at 17145 Maumee. If you are unable to attend the hearing, you may submit written comments until 12 noon on August 16, 2021. Comments can be mailed to City Hall, dropped off at City Hall or into the drop box there, or sent via email to city@grossepointecity.org.
If the request for conditional zoning is approved, the Planning Commission would then review and consider the site plan at a subsequent meeting of the City Council. Zoning sets the parameters for a potential building such as height, uses and setbacks from other properties. Site plan consideration goes into more detail about landscaping, parking, buffers, and other requirements. Both the conditional zoning application and a site plan approval would be required for the plan to proceed as proposed by Curtis Builders.
Curtis Builder's application and plan
Original source can be found here.
Source: City of Grosse Pointe
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