Protect Royal Oak Supports

 

Residential:

Single Family neighborhood preservation:

• Maintain the current single family ("One Family Residential") zoning protections in the zoning ordinance:

  • Don't adopt "Neighborhood Low/Medium Scale" zoning per the proposed "Master Plan Direction."

  • Preserve and enhance the character of existing residential neighborhoods. 

• Ensure that new multi-family development is compatible with the surrounding neighborhood characteristics.

• Require substantial setbacks between residential and multi-family/non-residential zones:

  • Maintain privacy and unobstructed sunlight.

  • Minimize disruptive artificial light, noise, odor, dust and intrusive activity.

• Maintain buffers consisting of a landscape area to create a substantial and decorative transition between residential areas and multi-family/non-residential zones.

• Encourage historic neighborhood designations and protections.

 

Housing cost and growth:

• Work with developers to construct attainable multi-family housing in currently designated multi-family zones. 

 

Multi-generational community:  Foster quality of life for every demographic sector:

• Eliminate additional tax increases.

• Eliminate Headlee overrides in order to protect seniors.

 

Roads, Traffic and Woodward Avenue:

Transportation and Traffic:

• Maintain capacity on major thoroughfares leading to a reduction in cut-through traffic in the neighborhoods.

• Protect emergency vehicle access routes without additional road narrowings and road islands.

• Enhance vehicular and pedestrian safety and reduce noise with additional police enforcement.

• Preserve and establish street trees and related landscape on all roads.

 

Woodward Avenue:

• Promote the greening of Woodward and other major commercial corridors while buffering and protecting the adjacent single family ("One Family Residential") neighborhoods.

• Investigate opportunities for additional open space on or adjacent to the corridor.

• Manage water run-off on sustainable street level green spaces.

 

Additional:

Downtown: 

• Encourage commercial retail uses.

• Consider appropriate high density, multi-family housing in the central business district. 

• Fix downtown parking metering system.

 

Parks: 

• Protect all public city parks from potential commercial re-development.

• Develop a network of existing and future parks and recreation facilities.

 

Schools:

• Enhance safe and efficient transportation to school.

 

Sustainability: 

• Preserve and enhance existing green space and green features in the city.

• Embrace green strategies to protect the legacy of current and future generations.