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WILSON PARK IMPROVEMENTS TO START IN SPRING BY MIKE KOURY
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FERNDALE — Ferndale will be making some big upgrades to one of its parks starting this spring. At its Feb. 27 meeting, the City Council received a presentation from Parks and Recreation Director LaReina Wheeler regarding the upcoming improvements at Wilson Park. Wheeler detailed many of the additions coming to the park, including new walking paths, playground equipment, a new basketball court, parking lot improvements, a shade structure, a new pavilion, a new water fountain that can refill water bottles, new trash and recycling bins, new park benches and accessible picnic tables, and landscaping improvements throughout the park. “There were some things that weren’t included in that base improvement scope that I just mentioned, because of the funding,” she said. “However, as we plan to go out to bid for this, which will be very soon, we are putting alternates within our bid document. So if … our bids come lower than what we anticipate, we can add those back into the project.” Alternate improvements the city has planned into its bid include upgrades to dog park and parking lot light See WILSON PARK on page 8A
As part of the commission’s approval, Noxx must change the teal color on all outdoor elements except its logo lettering.
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MARIJUANA BUSINESS GETS LICENSE APPROVAL IN PLEASANT RIDGE BY MIKE KOURY mkoury@candgnews.com
PLEASANT RIDGE — Pleasant Ridge’s City Commission has given its approval for its second and final marijuana business application. The commission approved at its Feb. 14 meeting a marijuana license application to Rapid Fish 2 LLC, which will be operating in the city as Noxx. Noxx will be located at 23622 Woodward Ave. During discussion of the item, City Manager James Breuckman noted that the city’s parking or-
dinance requires nine spaces, but that peak parking demand for similar spaces is 10-14 vehicles. “The site plan meets the on-site parking requirement with 16 spaces … providing 10 additional spaces leased from the neighboring Ferndale Hertz site. Hertz will cease operations once this use begins,” he said. “We’ve confirmed with the city of Ferndale there remains enough parking on the Hertz site that that can operate independently with the 10 spaces going along with the Noxx use. So that is an issue that’s been explored, and we’re confident that we don’t have See NOXX on page 13A
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