Jake Parcell News Today

STERLING HEIGHTS — Sometimes it takes a plan for a plan to come together. During a Feb.

STERLING HEIGHTS — A plan to add up to five new development sites for tenants at The Forum at Gateways Shopping Center recently pleased Sterling Heights Planning Commission members.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Frustrations over a recent split vote that rejected a planned unit development proposal spilled over to a Jan. 3 Sterling Heights City Council meeting.

STERLING HEIGHTS — A plan to put an apartment complex on Brougham Drive was recently postponed by the Sterling Heights Planning Commission after members suggested changes that they believe could make the property more harmonious to residential neighbors and the concept of a mixed-use district.

Residents question whether building on site of old landfill is safe for PUD.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Sterling Heights is setting some new, concrete rules for the paving of front yards and residential driveways, though the regulations are more lenient than proposed ones that were rejected earlier this year.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Planning about planning was the focus of discussion at a special meeting among Sterling Heights officials over the direction of how the city’s land will be used in the future.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Sterling Heights officials are quietly being busy bees, crafting new proposed rules that could regulate beekeeping in the community to make it more harmonious to neighbors.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Another planned unit development proposal for an apartment complex was recently approved by the Sterling Heights City Council — this time for the north part of the city.

STERLING HEIGHTS — Sterling Heights is pointing a way for more apartment construction with the approval of a rezoning plan.