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AUGUST 7, 2025 Vol. 44, No. 18
FOR MAYOR GROSSE POINTE FARMS
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Woods Council to take up controversial Mack rezoning proposal BY K. MICHELLE MORAN kmoran@candgnews.com
WOODS — Proposed rezoning of 20160 Mack Ave. in Grosse Pointe Woods — from restricted office, or RO-1, to commercial business, or C — has been met with strong resistance from hundreds of local residents, who’ve been railing against it for months. Residents are worried about increased traffic, reduced safety for children and pedestrians and overflow business parking on quiet residential streets, along with increased noise, trash, pests like rats, loss of green space and negative impact on property values, among other concerns. Medical offices currently occupy the single-story office building, but Buccellato Development is looking to redevelop the site to possibly include a national restaurant, up to three retailers or a combination of these uses, among other potential tenants. As of press time, about 570 residents had signed petitions against rezoning, and signs opposing Mack rezoning could be found on lawns throughout the community. City planners said that the proposed redevelopment is in keeping with the Woods’ new master plan, which calls for a greater variety of mixed uses — including restaurants, boutiques and personal service establishments — along Mack. The new master plan was approved in 2024, after a two-year process that planners said included community input and outreach. Although no tenants have been identified for the property, Ashley Jankowski, an associate planner with the city’s planning firm of McKenna, noted that fast food and carryout restaurants, bars and See REZONING on page 16A
Grosse Pointe Woods student Roy Bishop III is flanked by his parents, Latoya Bishop and Roy Bishop II, as well as Grosse Pointe Woods Mayor Arthur Bryant as the youngest member of the Bishop family is recognized for serving as junior mayor for the day. Photo by K. Michelle Moran
Woods honors 2025 junior mayor for the day BY K. MICHELLE MORAN kmoran@candgnews.com
WOODS — He may only be 11, but Roy Bishop III, of Grosse Pointe Woods, is already following in the public service footsteps of his parents. During a July 21 Woods City Council meeting, Mayor Arthur Bryant
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presented Bishop with a certificate of gratitude and appreciation for serving as junior mayor for the day on June 19. Bryant said he was “very happy” to give Bishop the certificate. “He was chosen to be our junior mayor,” Bryant said of the competitive process. “Everything went very well.”
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