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Grosse Pointe Woods City Council hears
plans, estimates for road, sewer repairs

Grosse Point Woods City Council’s Committee of the Whole meeting Monday (Jan. 23), outlined some of the upcoming improvements to the city’s roads and sewer system.

The city is working in cooperation with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, and engineering consultant Scott Lockwood, from the civil engineering firm Anderson Eckstein and Westrick, Inc.

Council members were told sewer system work will be scheduled for the fall of this year and continue until the summer of 2014. read more...

The acrylic panels on the front of Telly's Place were approved as a variance from Grosse Pointe Woods' sign ordinance, which prohibits more than two signs on a business. But the building below, where the Little Blue Book and Towar Productions are relocating, was prohibited by the city council from having four separate signs. Two more were planned for either side of the door.

Grosse Pointe Woods council splits
on Mack Avenue sign variances

Not quite a year after putting the uproar over Grosse Pointe Woods' neon sign ordinance behind it, the city council ventured into those waters again Monday (Dec. 19), with a split ruling on signage at two Mack Avenue businesses that led the defeated owner to rebuke the council and stride out the chamber. read more...

Grosse Pointe Woods council agrees
to Fire Safety Interlocal Agreement

Grosse Pointe Woods City Council unanimously agreed Monday (Dec. 5) to approve the Fire Safety Interlocal Agreement, which formalizes cooperation between the five Grosse Pointe fire departments. Proponents hope it will save money, as well.

The interlocal agreement has three elements: read more...

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