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Zoning, outdoor dining focus of joint workshop
Updating Birmingham’s zoning ordinances and possible additional rules around outdoor dining platforms were the focuses of the Monday, June 16, joint city planning board and commission meeting.
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Teuta outdoor dining plans postponed again
For the second time, plans for an outdoor dining platform outside of Teuta, a brunch restaurant 168 W Maple Road in Birmingham, have been postponed at the city’s planning board level due to issues with the parking situation where the platform is being proposed and the submitted plans reviewed by the board during the Wednesday, June 11, meeting also lacked required details.
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Marrow outdoor dining plans move ahead
Birmingham eatery Marrow, located at 283 Hamilton Row, will soon have an outdoor dining platform after the final site plans were reviewed and approved by the city’s planning board during the Wednesday, June 11, meeting.
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Birmingham contemplates survey of residents
The city of Birmingham is set to consider a potential survey of residents to learn more about their wants for the community after city commissioners voted on Monday, June 9, to discuss the concept as an agenda item during a future meeting.
Brothers face assault and other charges at hotel
Birmingham police were dispatched to a hotel in the 200 block of S. Old Woodward for a fight at 2 a.m. on Sunday, June 15.
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Arrest for malicious destruction of property
Birmingham police officers on Sunday, June 15, at approximately 1 a.m. were dispatched to a private parking lot in the 200 block of East Brown Street for a call about a male damaging private property.
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Checks stolen from Birmingham dance studio
A Birmingham dance studio on the 2200 block of Cole reportedly had 10 fraudulent checks from their account written and cashed between the end of April and the end of May.
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Several items stolen from car at residence
While a man had his truck parked in the driveway of a home on the 1300 block of Puritan in Birmingham on Tuesday, June 10, someone broke in, stealing his wallet and a backpack with two laptops and an iPad.
Added concerns over biosolids and farming
In the early 1990s farmers across the nation, was well as in Michigan, began applying biosolids – fertilizer sludge produced from human waste processed at wastewater treatment facilities – to farmland where produce for humans and animals were grown.
The race to succeed Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Oakland County) for the 11th congressional district is officially on. First to the starting blocks is state Senator Jeremy Moss (D- Southfield, Bloomfield Hills, Bloomfield Township, Auburn Hills, Lake Angelus, Lathrup Village, Pontiac, parts of Detroit, Waterford and Southfield Township), who currently serves as Michigan Senate President Pro Tempore and has spent his tenure in the state legislature tackling the biggest issues facing Michiganders, and noted that in 2023, when the Democrats controlled the state House, Senate and governor, he had the most bills signed in the Senate.
