I can not get over how incredibly dramatic the NIMBYs are in Royal Oak. They never really ever manage to stop anything, but boy are they loud. This guy wants to build 5 stories and 60 units on a literal main street, and they are losing their minds.
Royal Oak faces fresh development controversy
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Royal Oak — Controversial developments appear to be surfacing in Royal Oak as quickly as city-owned parking spaces disappear.
Developer Anthony Yezbick, a Royal Oak attorney, will go before the Royal Oak Planning Commission on Tuesday seeking major variances on a former gas station site for a five-story, 60-unit apartment building.
His request comes on the heels of vocal opposition to a $67 million downtown development project and its elimination of 225 surface parking spaces on Williams Street near City Hall.
Yezbick wants the site, now zoned business residential, changed to planned unit development to allow construction several stories higher than nearby buildings and for the city to waive a requirement to provide two parking spaces per living unit.
Yezbick covets a 110-space Center Street city lot across an alley just west of the shuttered gas station. Nearly half — 52 — of its spaces are committed to adjacent medical offices and a photography studio by past agreement with the city.
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The proposed apartment development is raising fresh alarm among residents who fear Royal Oak is swapping small-town charm for big-city sprawl.
“They are trying to pack 10 pounds into a 2-pound bag,” Campbell said. “You already have a lot of traffic, several streets all converging near there. What do they think is going to happen? I’m appalled. It’s going to be Bottleneck Central.”
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You'd think Royal Oak was building 50-story highrises if you listened to them.