Our Royal Oak single family neighborhoods are in jeopardy. The City Commission is moving rapidly to rewrite the city’s current, highly successful Master Plan and zoning ordinance which could, if enacted, dramatically affect our neighborhoods, our quality of life and our home values.

 

Contrary to extensive public input given at many public meetings in 2023-2024, neighborhood responses to surveys and other written communications sent to the mayor and City and Planning Commissions, the consultants produced a document which agrees with the City Commission’s agenda of squeezing high density developments into or adjacent to single family neighborhoods in the form of duplexes, apartments and backyard housing. This can only be done by eliminating single family zoning and rejecting neighborhood input and sound planning concepts.

 

While the City and Planning Commissions have already approved multi-family housing in specific single family neighborhoods, a rewritten Master Plan could allow increased density to spread throughout all neighborhoods.