Buildings, Safety, Engineering, and Environmental Department (BSEED) HearingWednesday, June 17, 2026 — 9:00 AMVirtual via Zoom: https://cityofdetroit.zoom.us/j/89517106887Dial in: 1-267-831-0333Written comments: zoning@detroitmi.govCase No. SLU2026-00019 Aevitas Specialty Services, the used oil recycling plant at 663 Lycaste Street, burned down on June 30, 2025. Now the company, oper ...
An Aevitas truck going through a residential area in March 2026. Even though they were closed after the fire we experienced frequent Aevitas tanker traffic until we contacting the City of Detroit DPW. They installed "No Truck" signs, called the company and alerted the police precinct. Read our page on Aevitas A new air permit application would let the oil recycling facility at 663 Lycaste re ...
Prepared by Eden BloomEast Side EnvironmentalApril 2026 Summary Detroit’s air-monitoring network is fragmented. Government, private, and community systems operate in isolation, measuring different pollutants with different methods, often without coordination or accountability. Residents report fumes, odors, and fires, yet the city lacks a single, trusted, legally defensible monitoring syste ...
DTE Energy is seeking state approval to power a 1.4-gigawatt data-center complex in Saline Township, developed by Stephen Ross’s Related Companies through its new subsidiary Related Digital. The proposed “Stargate Campus,”announced with OpenAI and Oracle Corporation, would rank among the largest private-sector energy loads in Michigan history. While Gove ...
Updated with FOIA'd EGLE Violation data Nov 9, 2025 - The map shows R2 residential zones in green and industrial zones in black, revealing heavy overlap in Districts 4, 5, and 6, where family homes sit beside factories and truck routes. The proposed “Let’s Build More Housing, Detroit” ordinance would make multifamily housing a by-right use in R2 areas, allowing higher-density development with ...
Source: EPA Purpose This analysis reviews data from the Michigan EGLE Pollution Emergency Alerting System (PEAS) to evaluate neighborhood air-quality conditions before and after the June 30, 2025 fire and shutdown at Aevitas Specialty Services Corp. (663 Lycaste St, Detroit, MI 48214). The goal is to assess how odor-complaint trends changed in the surrounding East Side corrid ...