Tecumseh, MI – The Tecumseh City Council recently approved the distribution of the Draft Evans Street Corridor Plan and Initiate the 63-day Public Review Period, and further direct City staff to distribute the proposed Plan to the required entities under the Michigan Planning Enabling Act.
According to the Plan:
“The Evans Street Corridor Plan is a comprehensive analysis and strategic action plan for Tecumseh’s Downtown north-south corridor. This Plan will serve as an update to the 2017 South Evans Street Subarea plan, functionally replacing it. In addition to replacing the existing South Evans Subarea Plan, this plan expands the scope of the subarea to include a portion of North Evans Street. Evans Street is important corridor, and the subarea along Evans Street from Shawnee Street to Russell Road. This corridor intersects Downtown Tecumseh and is critical in providing connectivity throughout the community, as well as provide opportunities for future development and redevelopment.
The first focus area is along North Evans Street and encompasses the Farmer’s Market (Market on Evans), Library parking lot, Shawnee Street intersection, and empty gravel lot that was previously linked to the Hamblin Building. Also in the vicinity is the former Hamblin Printing building, various commercial uses such as auto dealerships, consignment shops, and office uses.
The second focus area is north of the Tecumseh Products site and includes a current RV storage lot, City-owned vacant property, and a block of former Tecumseh Products Co. offices, and parking lot that is in the process of being converted into a mixed-use development.
Finally, the third and largest focus area is the former Tecumseh Products site. In 2013, Tecumseh Products moved its headquarters out of Tecumseh, vacating a 54-acre industrial campus on the south side of the City. The site is located south of downtown, approximately bound by Evans on the west, Cummins and Patterson on the north, Maumee on the east and Russell on the south. The Tecumseh Fire Department, an industrial warehouse, and two commercial developments (brewery and bank) are on the south end with frontage onto Russell Street. To the east, the uses are mainly industrial-commercial, while to the west, the uses are mainly residential.
The site has contamination issues, including groundwater plumes of Trichoroethene, cisDichloroethene, Vinyl Chloride, Chlorinated Ethenes, and VOC’s in excess of Michigan’s Part 201 Criteria, but is in the process of being remediated. In the interim, vapor mitigation systems may be required for new construction and redevelopment opportunities. By using the focus areas as anchor points, the intent of this plan is to offer strategies and goals to provide more connectivity and usability of the Evans Street Corridor.”
To read about the entire plan, click the link here: https://tecumseh.civicweb.net/document/173749/Approve%20Distribution%20of%20the%20Draft%20Evans%20Street%20.pdf?handle=086EF164527C4A19AFEC589D71885C23
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