City Development Plan Completed

Ann Arbor's Generar Development Plan has been completed by the Planning Department staff and will be ready for public review next month. Copies of the document will be presented to the Planning Commission April 22 at which time a review process - including pubíic hearings - will be established. Planning Department Director Raymond Martin told the commission last night the plan will be "restructured and reduced in size" prior to presentation in April. The commision had been given a March deadline by City Council to complete the General Development Plan. Vice Chairman John R. Kurkjian said completing the plan "was a job well done" in light of the other work which has faced the department over the past two years. Last night's most controver-l sial item, annexation and zoning I of the Kuebler property at Hu-I ron River Dr. and M-14, wasj deferred at the request of the petitioner. The commision had earlier deferred action on zoning the property R4A multiple family until traffic problems had been solved. Commissioners believed the road network for the 27acre development would prove hazardous. Parking and Traffic Engineering Director John E. Robbins, reporting on the traffic situation, said "this development will not have any appreciable effect on Huron River Dr. traffic either now or in the future. The additional traffic from the proposed development - estimated at 450 to 500 vehicles per day- will not have any significant effect on the Main Street interchange. "The accident rate has been rather small at the intersection of Main and Huron River D r i v e," Robbins reported, "wtih three accidents in 1967, one in 1968 and none in 1969 to date." Also last night, the commission asked that the State Highway Department review its policy regarding traffic movements at shopipng centers on Jackson at Maple. It was asked that the highway department review its earlier handling of the situation in light of tice since the Maple Village Shopping Center was opened. In other business, the commission recommended approval of a zoning change from R1C single family to O office for a .777of-an-acre parcel at Huron and Arbana. Also, the commission recommended approval of an R2A two family zoning for the Gould and others property - totaling 12.29 acres - on Liberty east of W. Stadium Blvd. The commission approval ends sóme three years of controversy over this parceL _