Plymouth Township's Planning Commission will take up three items when it meets Wednesday, Aug. 19, at 6:30 p.m. at the Township Municipal Offices, 9955 N. Haggerty Road, after a corrected agenda added a data center discussion and an industrial-property fence review to the already-scheduled Olivewood Estate rezoning vote.
The corrected agenda now includes PC# 2602, an administrative review for a fence and gate at 13101 Eckles Road, an industrially zoned parcel. Doug Kahan of Premier Realty Michigan, LLC is the applicant.
A data center discussion also appears under miscellaneous business. No applicant or specific project is named, but the topic arrives seven months into an 18-month moratorium the Board of Trustees approved 4-3 on Tuesday, Jan. 13. Township planner Laura Mangan told the board in January that data centers are currently a permitted use under a zoning ordinance written more than 20 years ago, before modern data centers existed, and that the pause would allow time to study potential negative effects.
The commission held a study session on data centers June 3 but took no vote.
Olivewood Estate returns
The headline item remains PC# 2576, the conditional rezoning request for Olivewood Estate, a proposed 13-home site condominium on 4.25 acres at the northwest corner of Ann Arbor Road and McClumpha Road. As we reported Aug. 18, the project has been before the commission since November 2025.
Commissioners tabled the proposal June 17 for up to three months so applicant Uldis Vitins of Vitins Engineering could obtain written confirmation from MDOT regarding the denial of curb cuts onto Ann Arbor Road. Whether that letter has been submitted is not indicated on the corrected agenda.
"I would have preferred the development gone forward with five-to-six lots with the existing zoning through land division, however, the State Highway Department relayed that the development would not be allowed curb cuts onto Ann Arbor Road," Vitins told the commission at its June 17 meeting, explaining why the 13-lot design was necessary.
Property owner Bandali Hosari has voluntarily committed to at least 10 ranch-style homes in the 2,200- to 3,500-square-foot range, no driveway access to Ann Arbor or McClumpha roads, and landscape buffers along the north property line and Ann Arbor Road frontage. The township planning department has recommended approval, citing consistency with aging-in-place housing goals, though the proposed density of roughly 3.3 units per acre slightly exceeds the Master Plan's 1-to-3-unit range.
Resident Stella Lansky of Green Valley Court raised traffic concerns on McClumpha Road at the June 17 hearing. Two earlier rezoning attempts on the same parcel, in 2021 and 2022, were denied or withdrawn.
How to watch
The meeting streams live at www.bit.ly/PlymouthLiveStreams. Residents can sign up for notifications at www.plymouthtwp.org/enotify. The next regular Planning Commission meeting is Sept. 16 at 6:30 p.m.
