Council to reconsider zoning request

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Port Huron City Council has chosen not to take up the recommendations of the planning commission and schedule their own public hearing for a block of parcels near McLaren Port Huron Hospital. Council on Monday unanimously rejected the planning commission’s recommendation to deny a rezoning request for the 1000 block of Erie Street.

“The rezoning tonight is not authorizing this project, it is just in regards to the parcels specific to any future development,” said City Manager James Freed while discussing the project with Planning Director David Haynes Monday.

“If this developer would like to come back, they will have to go through a site plan review with the planning commission, at that time the concerns are not addressed the planning commission reserves the right to vote the project down at that point,” Freed added.

Community Housing Network had planned to build up to 60 housing units in the block bound Erie, Lincoln, and Rawlins Street. The new public hearing will take place during the next council meeting on October 23rd. Also Monday, Port Huron City Council held a second reading and enactment of an ordinance that officially establishes the South Side Neighborhood Improvement Authority, allowing the city to move forward with selecting its board of directors.