Northville Residents Express Concern About Garage Restaurant
At Monday's city council meeting, resident complaints centered around patrons' vehicles packing residential streets.
The new restaurant Garage Grill & Fuel Bar opened last week in downtown Northville to high fanfare, but some residents are worried that the influx of people to that part of downtown Northville is creating traffic hazards in the residential areas. "There are 14 parking spaces for a restaurant that has seating for more than 200 people," said Mary Beth Widak at Northville City Council's meeting Monday. She said her home's driveway is on High Street where many of the restaurant's patrons have been parking. When vehicles park on both sides of the streets, she said, they become so narrow that only one vehicle can pass at a time. Widak also said the added traffic is bringing speeding drivers down the residential streets. "We bought homes in …
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Aysha Jamali
3:32 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
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