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Updated Village of Hastings project approved by Troy Planning Commission BY SARAH WRIGHT swright@candgnews.com
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Members of Troy High School’s Model United Nations team met with the permanent representative of Mozambique for the United Nations, Pedro Comissário Afonso, during the National High School Model United Nations International Conference in New York City.
Troy High School’s Model UN program promotes leadership and problem solving BY SARAH WRIGHT swright@candgnews.com
TROY — Students involved with Troy High School’s (THS) Model United Nations team are able to travel to different parts of Michigan and other parts of the United States to develop their leadership skills and confer with others about different issues. According to the United Nations’ website, Model UN provides opportunities for hundreds of thousands of
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students to engage in simulations to learn more about the principles of the UN and how it functions. Students may gain skills in public speaking, debating, and negotiating as they study a wide variety of topics that they can discuss with students from other schools. “Every conference that we register for, the students get assigned a specific committee, and sometimes we’re assigned in multiple committees, and then within that committee, you’re assigned a specific country,” Jacqueline Ciolek, an
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TROY — At a meeting April 8, the Troy Planning Commission unanimously approved the recommendation for a conditional rezoning of a subject parcel from NN (Neighborhood Node) and R-1B to RT, as a part of the Village of Hastings residential project, located in the Telford Ridge subdivision near the east side of Livernois Road and the north side of Square Lake Road. Brent Savidant, who is the community development director for the city of Troy, previously shared an explanation of the zoning specifics. “R-1B One-Family Residential permits single family detached homes by right on lots that have a minimum lot area of 15,000 square feet,” Savidant stated via an email. “RT One-Family Attached Residential is a more intense zoning district, since it permits attached dwelling units on lots that can be as small as 5,000 square feet. In the Village of Hastings application, the applicant has voluntarily restricted the number of units so that the density is significantly less than what is permitted by right.” The Village of Hastings project, from GFA Development Inc., previously included 33 residential units, con-