[0:00] Right. >> Working in progress.

[0:03] » I've got a few of those in the drawer.

[0:35] call the August 24th, 2026 meeting of the Delta Township Planning Commission

[0:40] to order. If everyone would rise for the pledge, please.

[0:46] I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

[0:52] republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and

[0:59] justice for all.

[1:04] » The secretary would call the role, please.

[1:06] » Yes. Chairman Kinski, >> here.

[1:09] » Vice Chair Marian Proctor, >> present.

[1:12] » Secretary Wel, present. Wendy Bradley is absent. Mike Mid

[1:19] » present. >> Commissioner Mudrey

[1:21] » present. >> Commissioner McConnell,

[1:24] » you'll not be here tonight. No, not tonight. And Commissioner Cow

[1:28] » here. >> We have a quorum.

[1:30] » Thank you. Everybody should have received a copy of

[1:34] the uh agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda as presented?

[1:39] » Move the agenda. >> Moved and supported. Any discussion?

[1:44] Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I.

[1:48] » All opposed. The agenda is adopted. Next is approval of the minutes from our

[1:55] August 10th, 2026 regular meeting, which all of you should also have received. Do

[2:02] I have a motion to approve the minutes from that meeting?

[2:07] » So moved. >> Support.

[2:09] » Moved and supported. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by

[2:16] saying I. I opposed. The minutes are approved.

[2:23] Uh it appears as though we do not have any correspondence.

[2:27] » That's true. We do not. >> Okay. There is no old business. We do

[2:32] not have a public hearing. So, we are on to other business, which is a site plan

[2:39] review number PFSP2026-000010

[2:47] from Mallalerie Building Contractors LLC to construct a warehouse at 7800

[2:54] Northport Drive, west of Canal Road and north of Millet Highway. Parcel number

[3:00] 04- 028-400-191-01.

[3:10] » Yep. Our colleague Hayden is taking the lead on this project, so he'll provide

[3:13] an introduction. >> Hello everyone. Um, as you mentioned,

[3:18] yes, we have a site plan review. Um, the applicant Mallerie Building Contractors

[3:24] LLC is seeking site plan review approval for the construction of a new 30,000

[3:29] square foot detached warehouse building um at the Professional Metal Works site.

[3:34] The site is located at 7800 Northport Drive, which is just off of Canal uh

[3:41] Street, Canal Road, just north of Millet Highway. Uh the property is 11.04 04

[3:47] acres and is zoned industrial. It is currently occupied by the

[3:52] profession by Professional Metal Works LLC. Um existing conditions on the site

[3:57] include the company's roughly 50,000 square foot factory building. Um 97

[4:05] parking spaces and landscaping which includes both a green belt along

[4:09] Northport Drive as well as parking lot landscaping. Um, the proposed warehouse

[4:15] is described as a pre-engineered metal building with the intended use for

[4:20] storing raw and finished materials. There are 15 site plan review criteria,

[4:26] all of which are listed in the staff report. We really don't have too many

[4:29] concerns uh to note given the scope of this project being just an addition to

[4:34] an existing site, but there are a few things that I will mention.

[4:38] Um, as I mentioned, there are currently 97 parking spaces on the site, three of

[4:42] which are barrierfree spaces. Um, and there are no new spaces being proposed.

[4:49] In order to add utility lines to the proposed warehouse, there will be 12

[4:53] spaces that will be temporarily unusable. Um, kind of in the Do you want

[4:59] to go to the site plan? >> Sure.

[5:02] » Yeah. Got uh the directly west of the drive. um just those right there, but

[5:08] that'll be temporary um pending construction completion. Um and

[5:15] because there are no new parking spaces and there's already an existing green

[5:19] belt, there's no additional landscaping required. Um similar to the parking that

[5:25] I mentioned, there are two landscaped trees that will be temporarily removed

[5:28] while installing the utility lines. Um, and the site plan does indicate, yeah,

[5:33] those two right there, right where the cursor is, the site plan indicates that

[5:36] they will be replaced. Um, and so that's just been added, the replacing of those

[5:40] trees as a condition of approval. The construction site of the proposed

[5:46] warehouse is directly to the west of the current building, um, which is currently

[5:52] a fairly flat, empty area with no trees. Uh but when looking at the Eagle wetland

[5:58] database, there appears to be a potential section of wetland soil in the

[6:02] southwest corner of the construction area. Um planning staff visited the site

[6:07] and observed some cattails in the area. So the applicant will just be required

[6:12] to reach out to Eagle to verify the protection status of any potential

[6:16] wetlands uh on the site. And this has also been added as a condition of

[6:21] approval. There are 15 conditions of approval

[6:25] listed, most of which being the typical boilerplate conditions applicable to

[6:29] every site plan review. Um, there are just a few more that I haven't mentioned

[6:33] yet that I will now. Number one, um, just some more basic site plan

[6:40] information is required. Uh, floor plans, side elevations, including the

[6:44] height and depicting lot coverage calculations on the site plan.

[6:49] Number 14, uh a completed chemical survey will need to be submitted uh

[6:54] prior to approval, even if there are no chemicals being stored on the site. Just

[6:57] a completed survey reflecting that fact. And then finally, uh number 15, the

[7:03] utilities and engineering departments in their submitted comments have requested

[7:08] a basis of design for water and sanitary sewer. And so that will also be needed

[7:13] to approve recycling. Uh these items have been relayed to the applicant. The

[7:19] applicant, Mr. Chase Mallerie of Mallalerie Building Contractors LLC, is

[7:24] here with us tonight to answer any questions you may have for him.

[7:28] » Thank you. Would the applicant like to speak? Uh, please approach the podium.

[7:33] State your name and address for the record, please.

[7:38] » Good evening, everybody. Uh, Chase Mallerie, Mallerie Building Contractors.

[7:41] My address is 9808 Old M78 Hasllett, Michigan. Um, yeah, Aiden, thanks for

[7:48] the intro. He covered basically everything. Um, Professional Metal Works

[7:54] is expanding and needs more warehouse storage. Um, and that's what this

[7:58] building's solely for. Um, there's a truck dock on the north side of the

[8:02] building where they'll um, do receiving and shipping out of the material. Um,

[8:08] and then really most of it will get received there and then they'll funnel

[8:12] it into the existing building for production and that sort of stuff. Um,

[8:17] but yeah, if you guys have any questions, feel free.

[8:21] » Commissioners, any questions or observations?

[8:26] » No.

[8:29] » If not, thank you. We're going to do >> Y. Thank you.

[8:33] » Okay. Is somebody prepared to make a motion

[8:39] with regard to this request? >> I can do that.

[8:43] » Okay, Marita. >> Okay. I move the planning commission

[8:46] grant site plan and review approval of the request from Mallalerie Building

[8:51] Contractors LLC to construct a 30,000 square ft warehouse building located at

[8:58] 7800 Northport Drive being parcel number 04

[9:04] 028400

[9:08] 1 91 01 as described in case number PFSP. P 2026-000010

[9:19] subject to the following conditions of which there are 15.

[9:24] Do I have support? >> Support.

[9:27] » Moved and supported. Do we have any additional discussion?

[9:35] Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. All opposed.

[9:43] The motion passes. Thank you. Any further advice for the

[9:49] applicants? >> No. So, you've got you've been um

[9:52] working with Hayden on this project. So, he sent you a couple things that that

[9:55] were reflected in the conditions from today. So, um just keep in touch with

[9:59] him on providing those items and if you need any help from us, just let us know.

[10:03] » Good. >> And otherwise, after that is happens um

[10:07] once you've addressed those conditions, we can move you on to a building permit.

[10:10] » Sounds great. >> Thank you so much.

[10:12] » Thank you. >> Thanks. Thank you gentlemen.

[10:13] » Thank you.

[10:18] » Okay. See no one here from the public. We have no public comments.

[10:25] » Mr. Manser. >> Uh just a couple things going over. So

[10:29] um some updates on our end. Um the board did approve the master plan

[10:36] at meeting last week. So we have a master plan. It's a good start. and I'm

[10:41] just kind of considering a good like the end of one component and we'll move on

[10:44] to the next of um discussing the plan and keeping it on you know as part of

[10:49] our review now. Um so you'll start to see some of those elements pop up in our

[10:54] staff memos and using that document to um reflect on these projects and work

[10:59] them into our reviews. So that will happen more slowly probably at first,

[11:03] but over time we'll we'll build that out. Um we'll start with just the future

[11:07] land use map and things like that. Um, from there for the next meeting, we've

[11:13] got two public hearings scheduled. One is a pretty large resoning of 58 acres

[11:19] on the east side of South Marketplace Boulevard, uh, south of the Secretary of

[11:23] State, kind of encompassing the end, if you're familiar where the Secretary of

[11:27] State is, the Executive Court development never really got finished.

[11:31] So, that was going to be a series of office condos there, and they stopped

[11:35] pretty much after the first three buildings. So the I development company

[11:38] that owns all that land is proposing to reszone the rest of that site and um

[11:44] going all the way south to St. Joe Highway to a multi RM multiple family.

[11:49] So you'll see that reszoning. It was referred by the board its last meeting.

[11:54] So you'll we'll have a public hearing on the 14th on that. And then there's a

[11:57] public hearing scheduled for a actually a resident initiated zoning amendment

[12:03] which is we do allow in our zoning ordinance. I've actually never dealt

[12:08] with one. Not that it's a lot different from the plane commissioner or the board

[12:11] initiating an amendment, but residents here in Delta can initiate amendments.

[12:16] We have an application fee. There's an application. They provide the language

[12:20] that they want to see. our team will write it up and kind of

[12:24] give you the pros and the cons of what they're proposing. Uh just a kind of a

[12:29] general policy review. But the issue at hand is we have a requirement in the

[12:34] zoning ordinance for primary public and non public that's

[12:41] what they call public and private schools have to be on primary roads. So

[12:45] Eaten County publishes a list of all the primary roads. They have a map and it's

[12:48] all the roads you probably already think are the primary roads are the main

[12:52] northwest roads. So, the school um Cedar Classical Academy is over on Wil

[13:00] Technically on Wilshshire, but they have Canal Frontage as well, if you're

[13:03] familiar with that. And they're a private school that um actually started

[13:07] in Marinian Township and I worked out there and they are have had a couple

[13:10] locations and they've been in the former I think BSNA building or I remember who

[13:16] was there but someone was over there. Um >> AAA Okay, I knew there were letters

[13:21] numbers. um they want to find a place to grow at and have found a place but it is

[13:27] not on a primary road. So it's not a item for the zoning board of appeals

[13:33] because it's not dimensional. It's that would be kind of a policy change if the

[13:37] zoning board of appeals looked at it. That would be a decision that really is

[13:40] a policy issue. So um they went just decided to apply and that will be in

[13:46] front of you. So it'll work like other amendments where it'll go to the plane

[13:50] commission for recommendation and then to the board for final action.

[13:55] So if we'll we will identify as many um you know we'll provide a policy analysis

[14:01] of that and give you a I think a pretty solid look at both sides of that um

[14:06] proposal from them. So um those are those are the big items

[14:12] for us. Uh the we do have an application, it's been mentioned it

[14:15] before, for seven seven brew coffee on the west side um in the area just west

[14:21] of Texas Roadhouse. It's the former Paradise Motors. So um I think I may be

[14:27] mentioned before, but I've got some as I would imagine others do have some

[14:31] traffic concerns about that project. the township is working. I've met with that

[14:35] development team and we are working on hiring a traffic consultant to support a

[14:39] review of a traffic study and just the general traffic issues over there. So,

[14:44] as you know, it's part of an area that there are quite a few crashes and

[14:49] there's a high volume of traffic. Um, and they are proposing to use flower

[14:55] land, which um, I haven't lived here as long as maybe some of you, but it's a

[15:00] private road that has, um, >> right

[15:04] » options for turning left and right as of now. So, uh, we are also working with M

[15:08] DOT on their um, boulevard project in that area. That's still a couple years

[15:14] off. So there's a lot of complicating factors around this and we want to make

[15:18] sure that we're not that we're looking at at every aspect of it and giving

[15:22] everyone that the decision makers all the guidance and all the facts that you

[15:25] might need to make a call on it because it's a potential hight traffic generator

[15:29] in an area that is already pretty challenging to drive in. So just don't

[15:33] want to don't want to ever have to look back on projects like this and say we

[15:37] made a big mistake or so I want you to have all the information. So, um, we're

[15:41] going to be interviewing a couple firms that'll be able to represent the

[15:43] township and they'll be coming to you for a special land use permit and site

[15:47] planner review at some point in the future. They're kind of on hold right

[15:51] now. >> Yeah. For those of you that uh didn't

[15:56] see it uh in the past week, there was actually quite an extensive write up uh

[16:02] in the local media covering specific businesses that were had

[16:08] changes upcoming, new businesses to be open. Uh a fair amount of discussion

[16:14] about the new master plan. uh in terms of just lay education as to

[16:21] what's going on. Uh I thought they did a pretty good job of calling attention to

[16:26] those things and helping to inform the general public out there. So if you

[16:31] haven't looked at it, it's worth looking it up online uh and reading it. Like I

[16:35] said, it's pretty extensive. >> Yeah. It's the long it's are you talking

[16:38] about the Delta unfiltered article? Yeah.

[16:40] » Yeah. So, so I'm also staffed to our several other boards and commissions,

[16:44] but the corridor improvement authority and it was the article mostly focuses on

[16:48] the the discussions that have been happening at the corridor improvement

[16:51] authority. So, I I'll send it out to everyone if you're interested. Um, it's

[16:55] a good overview of kind of all the issues that they've been talking about.

[16:57] We've been working with that group trying to get a work plan together. Um,

[17:01] just in general, I don't think anything is like actually the article kind of

[17:04] centers around this, but nothing's happening particularly quickly. I mean,

[17:07] it's a long, you know, a long commercial. We're not alone in having an

[17:10] aging commercial corridor, >> right,

[17:12] » that needs attention. So there, but the article summarizes a lot of the issues

[17:15] pretty well. So I'll send a copy out to everyone.

[17:18] » Yeah. The single biggest take takeaway in the article is that there's an awful

[17:22] lot to fix and it's going to happen in bits and pieces because it's the only

[17:25] way it can. They talk about the complications between zoning, statutory

[17:30] requirements, taxing, [gasps and sighs] the CIA, you name it. All those pieces

[17:34] that have to somehow come together. Uh, but like I said, it it's at least a bit

[17:40] thoughtprovoking and kind of puts it in the front of people's minds that this is

[17:44] going to be long and complicated. So, I would recommend it.

[17:48] » Yeah. Thank you for mentioning that. >> And then that's all for us unless anyone

[17:53] has any questions. >> Okay.

[17:57] Do we have any additional comments from the commissioners?

[18:06] Seeing none, do I have a motion to adjurnn?

[18:11] Support. Moved and supported. Any discussion? No.

[18:18] Meeting is adjourned. >> Thank you.

August 24, 2026 Delta Township Planning Commission Meeting

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