.:1989: FIRST AMENDED PLAN

The First Amended Development Plan was approved in March 1989. The project plan to construct a sewer system in the DDA along Laura Lane, Maple, West Oakley Park, Crumb, 14 Mile, Walnut Lake, Martin and Richardson Roads, as well as along Haggerty from Richardson to 14 Mile including some additional water mains.

A delay in progress occurred early in 1989 with discovery of an endangered species of fish, the red side dace, within Seely Drain. The DDA worked with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the Oakland County Public Works Department to develop a solution.

Despite the delays, the DDA began constructing sanitary sewers in 1990 and an addition to the wastewater treatment plant in 1995 with the remaining water and sewer systems completed in 1999.

By 1999, a great deal of progress occurred. With the advent of the construction of the M-5 connector from Novi north through Commerce, roughly parallel with Haggerty Road, much of the traffic that had used Haggerty Road and Novi Decker Roads to go north, now used M-5, with the abrupt terminus of M-5 at Pontiac Trail. Traffic snarls at rush hour became a common occurrence. Many of you who have tried at rush hour to exit or get onto M-5 from 14 Mile, 15 Mile or Pontiac Trail Roads are all too familiar with the scene. Huge delays are common at Pontiac Trail and Haggerty Roads as well as Pontiac Trail at Welch Road. Residential development within the Town-ship and surrounding communities has been expanding to the north and west for some time. Commercial activity has been increasing for some time and continues.

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