VAN BUREN TWP., Mich. (WWJ) -- Residents in Van Buren Charter Township will have an opportunity Wednesday night to voice their opinions on what they'd like to see come to the Sumpter Road Corridor.
The township is holding an in-person workshop Monday at Fire Station No. 1 on Hull Road to hear the community's ideas about the current mixed-use zoning plan for the corridor, between the city limits of Belleville and Bemis Road.
The workshop will begin at 5 p.m.
Dan Power, Planning and Economic Development Director for the township, tells WWJ officials want to know whether people still want to see a mix of rural and commercial zoning.
"Tonight's workshop is going to be an opportunity for them to put some comments out on a vision board, to do some brainstorming, and to even draw on some aerial maps that'll be laid out, the kinds of things they want to see built, or write down the things they don't want to be built," Power said.
Power says once they make a decision, it should only take a couple of months to get the land-use map updated.
He says township officials are looking forward to meeting with the community in-person.
"I think we're just really excited to have people be able to be there face-to-face, to put their ideas on paper in a way that we haven't been able to do at a lot of our meetings in the last year and a half, so we're excited to have people get out there and get engaged," Power said.
Power emphasized that township officials are looking for community guidance on the expectations for future development in the corridor.
"This is really just a blank canvas to get ideas about what people want to see in the future. There is no specific development that's talking about coming in and guiding this process. We're really just trying to get new ideas of what could occur here."
