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July 16, 2015
PLANNING COMMISSION
CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF CANTON
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Michigan Public Act 110 of 2006, of the State of Michigan, as amended, and pur-
suant to the Zoning Ordinance of the Charter Township of Canton that the Planning Commission of the Charter Township of
Canton will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, August 3, 2015 in the
First Floor Meeting Room of the Canton Township
Administration Building, 1150 S. Canton Center Road at 7:00 p.m.
on the following proposed special land use request as pro-
vided in Section 27.03 of the Canton Township Zoning Ordinance:
ALL AMERICAN PET RESORT SPECIAL LAND USE AMENDMENT
- CONSIDER REQUEST TO AMEND THE
SPECIAL LAND USE FOR AN ADDITION TO A KENNEL TO ACCOMMODATE UP TO 100 ANIMALS AS REQUIRED
IN SECTION 22.02B.13 FOR PARCEL NO. 003 99 0008 712 (7320 HAGGERTY N.). Property is located east of Haggerty
Road and south of Koppernick Road.
Written comments addressed to the Planning Commission should be received at the Canton Township Administration Building,
1150 Canton Center S. prior to Thursday, July 30, 2015 in order to be included in the materials submitted for review.
SEE ATTACHED MAP
Greg Greene, Chairman
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July 16, 2015
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PLANNING COMMISSION
CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF CANTON
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to Michigan Public Act 110 of 2006, of the State of Michigan, as amended, and pur-
suant to the Zoning Ordinance of the Charter Township of Canton that the Planning Commission of the Charter Township of
Canton will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, August 3, 2015 in the
First Floor Meeting Room of the Canton Township
Administration Building, 1150 S. Canton Center Road at 7:00 p.m.
on the following proposed special land use request as pro-
vided in Section 27.03 of the Canton Township Zoning Ordinance:
GROUP 10 COMMERCIAL CENTER SPECIAL LAND USE
- CONSIDER REQUEST FOR SPECIAL LAND USE
APPROVAL FOR A FAST FOOD AND DRIVE THROUGH ESTABLISHMENT AS REQUIRED IN SECTION 16.02B.5
FOR PARCEL NOS. 036 01 0012 001 (45731 MABEN), 036 01 0012 003 (45649 MABEN), 036 01 0012 004 (45641
MABEN) AND 036 01 0013 301. Property is located north of Ford Road and west of Canton Center Road.
Written comments addressed to the Planning Commission should be received at the Canton Township Administration Building,
1150 Canton Center S. prior to Thursday, July 30, 2015 in order to be included in the materials submitted for review.
SEE ATTACHED MAP
Greg Greene, Chairman
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July 16, 2015
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CHARTER TOWNSHIP OF CANTON
ACCESS TO PUBLIC MEETINGS
The Charter Township of Canton will provide necessary, reasonable auxiliary aids and services to individuals with disabilities at
the meeting/hearing upon a two week notice to the Charter Township of Canton. These services include signers for the hearing
impaired and audio tapes of printed materials being considered at the meeting. Individuals with disabilities requiring auxiliary
aids or services should contact the Charter Township of Canton by writing or calling the following:
Gwyn Belcher, ADA Coordinator
Charter Township of Canton, 1150 S. Canton Center Road
Canton, MI 48188
(734) 394-5260
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ELLEVILLE
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ANTON
Annual Canton Campout is tomorrow night
Van Buren plans to seek public safety millage
Jazz Tour starts this week
Tomorrow night, Canton
Leisure Services will host a
favorite family tradition in
HeritagePark.
The Annual Family Camp-
out and Movie Night will begin
at 6 p.m. in the park with inflat-
able bouncers, face painting,
s'mores making and family
games. There will be canoe
rides available for a nominal
fee and Crusin' Custom Coneys
will also be on site providing
dinners for sale. In the event of
inclement weather, the movie,
The LEGO Movie, rated PG,
may be suspended or cancelled.
Families are invited to set up
tents on the north side of
Heritage Park near the pavil-
ions. Campers and RVs will be
allowed to participate, however,
no electricity will be available.
Set-up of tents and camperswill
begin at noon on Friday, July 17.
No advance reservation is nec-
essary and the $20 camping fee
will be collected on-site the day
of the event.
There is a $5 fee for those
who wish to stay only from 6-9
p.m. to take part in the activities
and movie. The fee does not
include canoe rides, face paint-
ing, refreshments and conces-
sions. Saturday morning, an all-
you-can-eat pancake breakfast
will be available for $5 per per-
son.
Heritage Park is locatedwest
of Canton Center Road and
southof CherryHill Road.
For more information, call
(734) 394-5460 or visit
-
tonfun.org.
While Van Buren Township
officials have agreed to place a
millage question on the
November ballot to fund the pub-
lic safety department, they have
not agreed on the amount of the
new tax or the length of time it
will be effective.
The millage placed before vot-
ers would fund a full-time fire
department, rather than the sys-
tem of paid-on-call system now in
use. If approved by voters, the
new tax would also eliminate the
blended rate employee compen-
sation now in place in the town-
ship.
A 4-mill levy currently in place
will expire in December of next
year and officials agree that this
is not enough to fund a full-time
fire department. Discussion has
included placing language on the
ballot asking for a levy of 6.25 or
6.5 mills or placing two separate
questions before voters, one the
approval of the expiring 4 mills
and another asking for an addi-
tional 2.25 or 2.5mills.
A decision on the questions
was expected last week after lan-
guage for both proposals was pre-
pared for review by members of
the board of trustees. The
trustees face an Aug. 11 deadline
fromWayne County for ballot lan-
guage for theNov. 3 election.
The current 4 mill levy gener-
ates about $3.4 million and paid
less than 50 percent of the Van
Buren Township Public Safety
Budget of $9 million last year.
That budget includes all police,
fire, dispatch and animal control
in the township.
Trustees expressed concern
regarding the costs in the on-call
fire department, noting that the
township pays about $13,295 to
train and equip each firefighter
and than many of them have left
Van Buren for full-time jobs in
other communities.
Township Clerk Leon Wright
and Fire Chief Dan Besson dis-
agreed about the amount such
training has cost the township.
Wright asserted that at the $13,295
figure, 28 fire fighters had left the
township after being trained. He
said it cost the township $345,675
for those fire fighters who did not
staywith the department.
Besson disputed that, however,
noting that many fire fighters
come to the township with cre-
dentials and do not cost the town-
ship training fees.
Besson has proposed a full-
time department of 15 fire fight-
ers at a cost of $622,050 annually
along with 16 part-time fire fight-
ers at an annual cost of $284,361
as part of a $1.9 million budget.
The new department would elim-
inate full-time police officers or
ordinance department employ-
ees working as on-call fire fight-
ers.
Wright said that if the millage
is not approved by voters, drastic
cuts could be made including lay-
ing off two police officers and a
totally volunteer fire department
in the township.
The 10th annual Canton Color Tour
Jazz Series is nowunder way andwill con-
tinue everyFriday throughAug. 21.
Jazz musicians will take center stage at
different color-coded shopping center
venues located along Ford Road at 7 p.m.
Friday evenings. There are more than 300
businesses in the Canton Downtown
Development Authority district along
Ford Road including retail shopping,
department stores, health and other pro-
fessional services, financial institutions,
auto supplies and services, a variety of
restaurants, sports and entertainment
venues andhotels.
Tomorrow evening, July 17, Herbie
Russ will perform at IKEA, located in the
Blue Block near Ford Road and Haggerty.
Next week, July 24, The Brothers Groove
will perform at Super Bowl, located in the
Purple Block on Ford Road between
Canton Center and Sheldon roads and
July 31, Gerard Gibbs 'RYX” will perform
at theSuperBowl location.
Yancy will perform at the Super Bowl
location on Aug. 7 and Charles and Gwen
Scales will entertain at JCPenney, Aug. 14.
The JCPenney is located in the Green
Block between Morton Taylor and
Sheldon roads. The Urban Jazz Coalition
will perform at Kroger located in the
Yellow Block at Ford and Canton Center
roads onAug. 21.
FordRoadhas an establishedway-find-
ing system with color-coded street light
banners for each block along the 3-mile
stretch of the Downtown Development
Authority district. Merchants in or next to
each designated concert color block will
run specials starting on the day of the con-
cert until the followingThursday.
The concerts are free to the public. In
the event of inclement weather, concerts
will be moved to the Super Bowl at 45100
FordRoad.
For more information, access
zz_concert_series_.asp.
Winning smile
Lydia Marvaso, 12, from Belleville,
displays the smile that helped her
win the 2015 Young Miss Michigan
Amazing title. She recently compet-
ed in the National American Miss
pageant winning the Pre-Teen divi-
sion for Top Model, Most
Photogenic and First Runner-Up as
Most Promising Model. She will
compete later this year for the
National All-America Miss title in
Anaheim CA. She will be going into
the 7th grade honors class at
McBride school this fall.
