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Royal Oak commission approves on-street parking changes BY MIKE KOURY
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Two changes were approved by the Royal Oak City Commission regarding the downtown parking system. The changes for on-street parking include the extension of the free parking grace period to 15 minutes and an increase to three hours as a maximum time limit.
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Royal Oak delays vote on Fourth Street development BY MIKE KOURY
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ROYAL OAK — The Royal Oak City Commission decided to postpone a vote to rezone an area for a multiple-family building. At its April 10 meeting, the commission reviewed a request to rezone 718 W. Fourth Street from a one-family residential overlay district to
multiple-family residential. The existing building would be converted from a two-story building that formerly held an “89-bed convalescent center into 25 multiple-family dwellings,” city documents state. “The 25 units, it’s a big-size building,” Ghassan Abdelnour, the CEO of GAV & Associates, the architect of the project, stated. “We’re not touching the basement. I mean we’re keeping it
just for storage and stuff like this, but we’re only using the top two levels. Structurally, the building is in very good shape. We’re going to be changing everything, the roof … we’re meeting all the requirements with the new windows. We’re opening a little bit bigger size windows to give it some character to the building.” Residents came out to speak about the proj-
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ROYAL OAK — The Royal Oak City Commission has approved two changes designed to improve its downtown parking system. The changes approved by the commission at its April 10 meeting include the extension of free parking, known as a grace period, from five to 15 minutes for on-street parking and an increase from two to three hours maximum for on-street parking. The changes come amid negotiations between the city and Municipal Parking Services to improve the downtown parking system after complaints from residents and visitors about the number of tickets issued since the new system’s introduction.