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Request To Rezone Land for Soccer Complex Heads To Planning Committee

The Shelby Township Board of Trustees sent the Carpathia Soccer Club's request to rezone land to the planning and zoning committee.

A request to rezone land for a soccer complex on 23 Mile Road has been sent to the Shelby Township Planning and Zoning Committee.

An unidentified group, which is affiliated with the Carpathia Club, has asked the township if a 35-acre piece of foreclosed land on 23 Mile Road between Hayes and Schoenherr roads could be rezoned so that an outdoor soccer complex could be built on the parcel.

“It’s purely exploratory. We have not made an offer or spoke with the owner of the land,” Carpathia Club representative Gus Panos said.

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Preliminary plans for the complex were submitted to the township. The plan calls for several outdoor soccer fields, a concession stand and a parking lot.

The problem lies within the zoning of the existing land, which is currently empty.

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In 2007, the Shelby Township Board of Trustees approved a consent judgment with Shelby Tech. to develop a 239-unit senior housing complex.

The property was zoned as LM, Light Manufacturing. However, the independent group affiliated with the Carpathia Club has asked the township to consider the property be changed to special land zone rather than LM, so that it can build on the land.

Trustee Paula Filar said at Tuesday’s board meeting that she didn’t want to make a decision based on the merit of the request, but she wanted the request to go to the planning and zoning committee, as if the process of requesting the permits were to start over.

The board agreed.

The process will require a public hearing about the request, a plan review by the planning and zoning committee and a notification of property owners within 300 feet of the site.

At the end of the special land use process, the board of trustees would decide whether or not to amend the consent judgment.

The Carpathia Club Soccer Organization serves more than 500 players in the Macomb County area, and has been sharing facilities with other soccer clubs for more than 50 years.

“The club has grown to the point where it would like to develop its own soccer complex as opposed to sharing other facilities and the scheduling problems that are inherent with that situation,” said Spalding DeDecker Vice President Thomas Sovel.


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