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- - -- - - -- - -...._-------_ ..- . - ~--~ --- ..... ,... -- ---- .1 •\,;-: ,I -----------------------------------~ t I Hoa~ & Son& Jzsc Book Bindery Sprinnport, Hi 49284 492 '. \ WAYNE COUNTY'S OLDEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER ... ESTABUSHED 1869 Vol. 114,No. 30,Three Sections, 28Pages, Plus Supplements WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1983-NORTHVILLE, MICHIGAN THIRTY CENTS • • Intermediate schools to collect tax ........~. ., Northville residents apparently will year only in the portion of Northville taxing taxpayers for the cost of paying p.m. meeting of council in city han be paying a portion of their school taxes townShip served by Plymouth schools, their taxes." Monday. this summer as the Wayne County In- which are collecting the summer tax In conversations with the Northville McAllister noted that the Oakland termediate School District Board of this year. School District representatives, he Schools Board of Education hearing on Education voted last week to collect the Public Act 333, passed late last year related, it had been agreed that the a summer tax collection was to have intermediate district tax levy, as pro- by the state legislature, permits school school district would pay collection been held January 25 and that the city vided by state law. costs. '. ,Schoolcraft College Board of districts to collect the summer tax, sav- had'been notified January 12, although ing Interest charges In borroWing until the hearing does not affect city collec- Trustees passed a resolution In J anuary the winter collection If local governing The Wayne County Intermediate tlons as all city residents are in the Nor. to collect a summer tax when other . school taxes were collected In the local \ bodies do not Wish to make the collec- School District levy will be on the city thvIlle School District, even If they live council agenda for discussion at the 8 in Oakland County. districts that are part of the Schoolcraft ti.on,!t may be done by the county or the district. It now Intends to "piggy back" district Itself. ~ its summer tax levy on the In- The city, which already collects its termediate District tax here, a taxes in summer, will not have a spokesperson said Monday. separate collection to make, McAllister Plymouth district residents News of the intermediate district's said Monday. The township, however, decision, made last Wednesday at a has not had a summer levy, and collects summer tax hearing, caught both all taxes In the winter levy. to pay school summer taxes ;~: township clerk Sus~n Heintz and city Heintz noted the township has been cle~k Joan McAlhster, b~ surprise. charging the one percent collection fee !'lelther was aware the hearIng was be- but noted that is a small amount on the Northville Township residents who Plymouth-Canton Community Schools mgheld... 3.0 mill levy. She anticipated the are located In the Plymouth Canton voted to collect the taxes because of McAllIster sal~ a call to the ~ayne township will pass a resolution at the Community School District will be pay- recently enacted legislation that gives <:ounty Intermediate School Dis~rIct of- February 10 meeting on whether Jt will ing one-half of their school district pro- each school district the option to impose fice }'d0nday r~vealed the dl~trIc.t had be the collecting aaency. perty taxes this summer. a summer propety tax levy of all or one- pubhshed a nobce of the hearmg m the <> A total of 387 property owners in the half of the annual school propertY' Detroit Free Press January 19. City Manager Walters also pointed southeastern corner of the township, in- taxes. Announcement of the intent to levy out Monday that the city traditionally cluding the Park Gardens area, will be The Board contacted Northvill*:: the summer tax stated, "PublIc senti· has not charged the one percent collec- involved in the summer tax levy. ment expressed at the board's summer tion fee with the reasoning that it "is The Board of Education of the Continued on 3 tax hearing Wednesday (January 26) approved the earlier collection as good business practice since it did not in- volve any tax increase." Pl~nners deny township rezoning Dr. William Simmons, intermediate ," district superintendent, said short term Denial is the recommendation made year-old farmhouse as a specialty, hospital, made the property worthle;s investment of the tax would produce ad- by the Northville Township planning, boutique, and argued that such a use as residential property. ditional funds, particularly for the sup- commission to the township board of would not disrupt the residential A similar rezoning request was made port of special education programs in trustees on a. request for rezoning a character of the neighborhood. concerning a parcel at the corner of the county. piece of property at the corner of Seven Stanton claimed that the property is Seven Mile and Fry roads; that rezon- The intermediate district levies an Mile and Pierson roads. "useless" as a residential parcel due to ing is currently awaiting a decision by, operating tax of .03 (three-hundredths) The TeqUest to rezone the farmhouse its proximity to Northville Regional the township board. A similar rezoning of a mill, .07 mills for debt service and on approximately two acres from Psychiatric Hospital. She said that her was approved by the board early last 1.0 mill for sp!lcial education for a total residential (R-D to local business clients have had the property on the year. , , " of 1.1 mills. Most of the 1.0 mill taX for district (B;l) vias made by a Westland market for two years but have not been Stanton told the commission that the 'v speclal education' is oiS1:iibuteii to'luc.al - reafestate'linn on bell'alf of the' current able to sell!t \Vithresidential zonin'g" voIWhiNfJ'raffic'" on"Seven-MUe Road schoo.ldistricts. ......- , ownenfof the property: '. .,' . ':'The only offers they have receiVed already was higher than acceptable for With' a Schoolcraft'levy of 1.94 mills, . \. The request. \Vas tabled by the com- have been commercial offers," she residential areas but suitable Ior;a com- , the total of the summer school collec- mission In December, 1982. Bev Stan- said. She contended that the "non- merclal area. She also cited the number tion is expected to be about 3.0' mills, ton, real estate firm representative, res i den ti a I" n a tu re 0 f the of escapees from the hospital as mak- which, City Manager Steven Walters told the commission that the prospec- neighborhood, which is across Seven ing the neighborhood undesirable ~, ~~ said, would be about $100 for the tive buyers would like to use the 110- Mile Road from the Northville state residentially. average city resident. Commission member and township Calling the Wayne County In- T 'h· h . · trustee Richard Allen disputed Stan- termediateSchoolD~trict'sdecisionto I owns Ip oard examInes ton's figures, calling them "grossly Woods walkers levy the summer school tax "a real sur- distorted," and noting that statistics prise," township clerk Heintz admitted, • can be twisted to mean almost The trees at Maybury Park cast an engaging silhouette behind "Idon'tknowwh~t.we'regoingtodo." block grant expendItures anything. She said the deCISIon on whether the Township police chief Kenneth the Hall family on their recent winter outing. Three-year-old township will collect the summer levy • Hardesty submitted a letter to the com- Christopher, at left, accompanied his Uncle Dick, Grandma is required by law to be made in 30 Recommended expenditure of Nor- of the $14,000planning allotment, which mission in which he stated that the cor· Miriam and family dog Cider on a winter picnic. The family days. It will be on the agenda of the next thville Township's projected $99,000 In included $6,400for the community park ner was unsuitable for commercial tested the playground equipment while waiting for grandpa to board of trustees meeting at 8 p.m. community development block grant begun last year with block grant funds; development due to a short sight • arrive with peanut butter sandwiches. Record photo by Steve February 10in township hall. fund were examined by the township $4,200 for construction of "non- distance' that would make difficult in- Fecht. , Heintz cited the last census report board at the first of two publlc hearings motorized transportation routes," gress and egress of commercial traffic that the average house in the township Thursday. $5,500 for a "public improvement pro- from the site. is valued at around $100,000.Based on The board questioned the projected gram, $2,000each to develop a township "Further, slowed traffic searching that figure, the summer collection for use of the allotment for "planning," zoning atlas and write a demographic for a business in a basically residential the intermediate district and and also discussed possible fire depart- profile of the township. area could cause additional traffic pro- Schoolcraft would be about $150, she ment purchases. The $14,000also included $2,500for in- blems," Hardesty's letter stated. estimated. Clerk Susan Heintz had recommend- ventory and mapping of historical sites Planner Claude Coates advised the CITY COUNCIL agenda for its mercial and business-office zon- Northville Board of Education, after ed to the board that $35,000of the funds In the township and $1,000 for "iden- commission that the rezoning was con- meeting at 8 p.m. Monday will be ing. Next meeting of the plann· a pUblic hearing in January, made the be spent on the Park Gardens sewer tification of natural beauty roads." trary to the township's master plan, a full one, according to Clerk ing commission is set for 8 p.m. decision to levy a summer tax, but not special assessment district (SAD).