CITY OF SOUTHFIELD  
SPECIAL MEETING  
OF THE 
CITY COUNCIL AND PLANNING COMMISSION

 JUNE 16, 2025
6:00 – 8:00 PM

ROOM 115 – PARKS & RECREATION BUILDING
26000 EVERGREEN ROAD, SOUTHFIELD, MI

AGENDA

A.    Call to Order

B.    Roll Call – City Council
    Roll Call – Planning Commission

C.    Communications/Public Comment – The Southfield City Council and the Planning Commission have established the following Rules of Procedure for all speakers: 

• No speaker may make personal or impertinent attacks upon any officer, employee, City Council member or Planning Commission member, or other elected official that is unrelated to the manner in which the officer, employee, or City Council member or Planning Commission member, or other elected official, performs his or her duties.
• No person shall use abusive or threatening language toward any individual when addressing the City Council and Planning Commission.

Any person who violates this section shall be directed by the presiding officer to be orderly and silent.  If a person addressing the Council and Planning Commission refuses to become silent when so directed, such person may be deemed by the presiding officer to have committed a “breach of the peace” by disrupting and impeding the orderly conduct of the public meeting of the City Council and Planning Commission and may be ordered by the presiding officer to leave the meeting.  If the person refuses to leave as directed, the presiding officer may direct any law enforcement officer who is present to escort the violator from the meeting.

D.    Round Table Introductions

E.    Items for Discussion

1. Architectural design standards
2. Development/redevelopment/reuse (residential and commercial) friendlier/more flexible /improvements to zoning ordinances and processes
3. Evolving housing options:
   1. Accessory dwelling units (ADU’s)
   2. Tiny homes
   3. 1-4 unit attached residential infill in single family residential areas
   4. Missing middle housing: 5-16 dwelling unit multiple family residential infill
   5. Office building and hotel re-use/conversions to multiple family residential or mixed commercial/MF residential use
4. Woodlands and Tree Preservation Ordinance Revisions:
   1. Recent litigation related to tree ordinances
   2. Change of emphasis from individual trees to woodlands
   3. Fee structure (currently no fees for permits/inspections and dated values for paying into tree fund for required replacements)
   4. Exemption of single-family residential lots from tree replacement requirement (permit & licensed/insured contractor required for removal of 6”+ diameter trees for safety)
   5. Exemption of invasive tree species from tree replacement requirements (permit & licensed/insured contractor required for removal of 6”+ trees for safety)
   6. Appeal processes related to administrative reviews (improvements to clarity and streamlining)
5. Miscellaneous

F.    Adjourn