He explained that the specific items Nycz is looking to sell “go hand-in-hand” with the materials he is making on-site. Jacobs said he and his client were advised by the planning commission at its October 13 meeting to bring the text amendment back to the board and ask them to direct the commission to reconsider. That doesn’t mean the applicant can’t come back to you and ask you to send it back to planning, but you’re not required to.” The property owner has come back and is now asking you basically to reconsider whether you would send it back to the planning commission and go through that process again. “There was never a public hearing, there was never a proposed ordinance amendment that was finally developed, and that was end of it. Township Attorney Phil Goldsmith said that the planning commission had previously considered this text amendment among other related amendments that were eventually approved, but it decided that “it was not in the best interest of the township to revise the zoning ordinance that would allow commercial sales in this industrial zoning district.” entrance which is not supposed to be there and they don't even have permission from the Michigan Department of Transportation for yet." The berm has not been addressed, there are cinderblocks that were supposed to be moved to the north and they're not addressed, the access from the west was supposed to be removed, per the Monroe County Road Commission, and that has not been addressed, there's a gate across the Telegraph Rd. They're only supposed to be a maximum of 12 feet, and from my understanding they're 16-plus.
"The (material piles) are getting higher, not lower. "No structural drawings have been submitted for the building even though, from my understanding, (Jacobs) drew them and gave them to (Nycz) and he still has not submitted them to our building department," Hershberger said. Township Clerk Trudy Hershberger said that, as of Tuesday night, most of the outstanding ordinance violations remained unaddressed. Nycz has been working with local architect Jim Jacobs on the project, and Jacobs and local attorney Timothy Churchill represented The Mulch King at Tuesday's board meeting.
These violations include the construction of a small building that isn’t listed on the original document, failing to erect proper screening around the business, exceeding limits on the size of material piles, and selling yard materials that are produced offsite.Īt its October 13 meeting, the township's planning commission approved a new site plan for the business that addresses the issues and gave Nycz six months to bring his facility into compliance with the ordinance. His fellow board members balked at the fact that Nycz was attempting to have the text amendment added to the ordinance despite The Mulch King remaining in violation of the current ordinance due to unauthorized changes that the owner made to his facility that infringe upon his original site plan.
Township Trustee Craig Montri was the lone board member to vote against rejecting the request. The board voted 6-1 last Tuesday to reject Mulch King owner Andrew Nycz's request to have the governing body direct the township's planning commission to re-evaluate his proposed text amendment to the zoning ordinance governing composting facilities that would allow him to sell products not produced at his facility. Tensions reached a boiling point as the Bedford Township Board of Trustees recently revisited the township's years-long dispute with local compositing facility, The Mulch King.