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candgnews.com JUNE 5, 2024 Vol. 35, No. 12
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Adopted ordinances define, regulate hobby beekeeping BY ERIC CZARNIK
The city has been talking about and studying the issue for over a year, and those talks prompted officials to write up two ordinance proposals. City officials said these proposals have since been reviewed by the Sterling Heights Sustainability Commission, local beekeeping groups and Michigan State University.
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STERLING HEIGHTS — It has come to “bee”: The Sterling Heights City Council voted in May to introduce and then formally approve a pair of ordinances that allow regulated hobby beekeeping in the city.
Last December, the Sterling Heights Planning Commission recommended the proposed beekeeping regulations 8-0. City Planner Jake Parcell said during a May 7 council meeting that, between the two proposed ordinances, the zoning ordinance sets up hobby beekeeping as an accessory use, and the regulatory ordinance
defines hobby beekeeping and regulates it with the state’s and other communities’ best practices in mind. Topics raised in the regulation include hive placement and setbacks; hive number limits; a required flyway barrier to keep bees from bothering neighbors; and a required See BEEKEEPING on page 19A
Plumbrook celebrated as a place to bike BY ERIC CZARNIK eczarnik@candgnews.com
STERLING HEIGHTS — A new bike lane along Plumbrook Road is promising a wheel good time for local cyclists. During a May 21 Sterling Heights City Council meeting, City Engineer Brent Bashaw said the new Plumbrook bike lane, which occupies the road section between 17 Mile Road and Utica Road, is part of a pilot program. “So the city has been reviewing a lot of our road projects over the last handful of years for attractiveness to bike lanes, and Plumbrook checked a lot of these boxes,” See BIKING on page 22A
FAR LEFT: Sterling Heights police ride along the new bike lane on Plumbrook Road as part of a May 30 event celebrating the new amenity’s completion. NEAR LEFT: City officials say the new bike lane is consistent with the city’s goals of promoting community safety, sustainability and connectivity.
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