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Call to Order
Roll Call
Nancy Strohschein (Chair), Joe Bollech (Board of Review), Bob Janda (Board Rep), Robert Lindert (Vice Chair & Secretary), Jay Loman (Board of Review Chair), Donna Preston – Absent with notice, Buddy Sweeney (Zoning Admin) – Absent with notice
Pledge of Allegiance: Recited
Introductions/Guests: Jason McCarthy attended via phone call.
Approval of Agenda: Bob motioned, Joe seconded
Approval of minutes of February 13, 2024: Jay motioned, Bob seconded
Agenda:
I. Chairman comments:
A. Updates to ZBA membership/publication – Discuss with Jason

• Jay did research. Prefers 5 people instead of 3 for the purposes of voting.
  However, this is ultimately not the responsibility of the Planning Commission,
  and thus we will no longer be discussing it.
  II. Recreation Committee/Plan
• Up to the board at this point.
  III. Ordinance Update – Led by Jason
  A. Final: Article XV updates from our last meeting
• Going to proceed with finalizing the ordinance in lieu of waiting for further
  input from Buddy.
• All changes look good.
  B. Discussion on blight
• Jason gave overview on his blight ordinance document he provided.
• Robert & Nancy agree a complaint-driven system vs. an “actively looking”
  system would be best.
• Robert disagreed with Section III about any non-running vehicle that is not
  inside or behind a fence being considered “blight”.
• Planning Commission agreed to table the entire blight ordinance to await
  further recommendations from the Township Board.
  C. Setbacks – Suggestions from Buddy
• No recent issues. Will leave as is.
  2
  D. Confirm change from 120 to 200sqft not requiring building permit, but still
  requires zoning permit
• The 200sqft is for accessory structures, not something like a dwelling unit.
• Discussed minimum lot sizes, farm and forest should be 5 acres instead of 1.
• Change all smaller districts to 40,000? 40,000sqft lot size is the minimum
  needed to get a septic/well permit.
• Tabled further discussion until next meeting.
  E. Final steps for ZO update
• Receive final compiled document
• Publication on website
• Notice in paper (verbiage from Jason)
• Summary of changes
• Print copies for public input session
• Schedule public input session
• Jason to attend public session
• Resolutions from Jason
  IV. Next meetings
  A. Planning Commission Work Session: Wednesday, April 3rd @ 6:00PM
  B. Township Board Meeting: Monday, April 1st @ 6:00PM
  C. Public budget Meeting: Wednesday, March 27th @ 4:30PM
  D. 2024 Quarterly Meetings
• Wednesday, April 10
• Thursday, July 11
• Thursday, October 10
  Adjourn: Robert motioned, Bob seconded. 7:10p

Call to Order
Roll Call
Nancy Strohschein (Chair), Joe Bollech (Board of Review), Bob Janda (Board Rep), Robert Lindert (Vice Chair & Secretary), Jay Loman (Board of Review Chair), Donna Preston – Absent with notice, Buddy Sweeney (Zoning Admin) – Absent with notice
Pledge of Allegiance: Recited
Introductions/Guests: Jason McCarthy attended via phone call.
Approval of Agenda: Bob motioned, Jay seconded
Approval of minutes of February 13, 2024: Robert motioned, Joe seconded
Agenda:
I. Chairman comments:
A. Terms on PC. Anyone hear from Lisa?

• Nope.
  B. Updates to ZBA membership/publication
  C. Update from March board meeting
  II. Recreation Committee/Plan
  A. Feedback from Lisa M. and Jay F. on discussion with MTA on By-Laws
• Township board did not approve an official recreation committee. Suggested
  we go with an unofficial advisory committee instead.
  B. Recreation plan was not uploaded to the DNR site in time for 2024 grants.
• However, we have the COVID-19 grant money to use.
  C. The expected committee members are:
• Robert Lindert
• Scott Lloyd
• Mary DeLine
• John DeLine
• Kathy Salsbury
  III. Ordinance Update – Led by Jason
  A. Final: Article XV updates from our last meeting
• Beefed up dark sky compatible lighting.
• 1506 #2 and 1506 #3 added “commercial” to the wording.
  2
• Section 1511
  a) Remove #2, #3, #4, #5, and #7.
  b) Change #6 to “semi trailer”
  c) Set all temporary permits to 1 year, renewable up to 3 years.
  d) Section B: Remove #6.
  e) Section B: Change #3 to WUPHD instead of county health dept.
  B. First Review: Short Term Rentals. Info from WUPHD about inspections (Nancy)
• Discussed septic inspections, fire inspections. These will set the capacity for
  the Short Term Rental.
  C. Second Review: Municipal Civil Infractions
• Tabled until next meeting.
  D. Blight Ordinance: L’Anse Twp & previous from Jason. Do we want to pursue
  either/any?
• Tabled until next meeting.
  E. Setbacks – Suggestions from Buddy
• Tabled until next meeting.
  F. 120sqft vs 200sqft for building permits
• Committee agrees we should increase to the 200sqft not needing a permit,
  thus matching the county ordinance.
  G. List of final items for Jason to work on for us include:
• Outdoor wood boilers
• Minimum lot sizes per zoning district
• Zoning map adjustments
• Blight
  IV. Next meetings
  A. Planning Commission Work Session: Wednesday, March 20th @ 6:00PM
  B. Township Board Meeting: Monday, April 1st @ 6:00PM
  C. Public budget Meeting: Wednesday, March 27th @ 4:30PM
  D. 2024 Quarterly Meetings
• Wednesday, April 10
• Thursday, July 11
• Thursday, October 10
  Adjourn: Robert motioned, Bob seconded. 7:30pm

Call to Order
Roll Call
Nancy Strohschein (Chair), Joe Bollech (Board of Review), Bob Janda (Board Rep)’ Robert Lindert (Vice Chair & Secretary), Jay Loman (Board of Review Chair) – Absent with notice,
Donna Preston – Absent with notice
Pledge of Allegiance: Recited
Introductions/Guests: Buddy Sweeny, new Zoning Administrator
Approval of Agenda: Bob motioned, Joe seconded
Approval of minutes of January 31, 2024 Recreation Committee Open House: Bob motioned, Joe seconded.
Approval of minutes of January 31, 2024 Work Session: Joe motioned, Bob seconded.
Agenda:
I. Chairman comments:
A. Welcome Buddy! Our new ZA.
B. Updates from February 5 Board Meeting

• Lisa & Jay to talk to MTA to finalize bylaws.
  C. Terms on PC. Anyone hear from Lisa?
• Nope.
  D. Updates to ZBA membership/publication
• Tabled until next meeting.
  E. Rec Plan upload to DNR site. We may have missed the deadline.
• Jason believes we may have some leeway.
  II. Recreation Committee
  A. Pending By-Laws approval in March
  B. The expected members are:
• Robert Lindert
• Scott Lloyd
• Mary DeLine
• John DeLine
• Kathy Salsbury
  C. If anyone from Arvon Township wishes to join, they will be given priority.
  III. Ordinance Update
  A. Second Review: Article XV updates from our last meeting.
• All references to “R-1A” need to be changed to “GR” (General Residential)
• Discussed removing Section 1511 entirely. Doesn’t seem to fit in with other
  changes we’ve made. i.e. shipping container use.
  2
  B. First Discussion: Short Term Rentals (STR) – Document sent by Jason for us to
  review
• Buddy talked about MTA recommending STRs be classified as Hotels/Motels.
• Questions for the PC:
  a) Annual Permit – Yes
  b) Fire Department Inspection – 3 Yes / 1 Unsure
  c) Health Department Inspection – Septic/Well OK, most agreed
  d) Fee – Yes
  (1) Fee could cover the FD costs of the inspection, paperwork
  for permits, etc etc…
  (2) Somewhere around $100-$300 annually?
  (3) Could charge fee based on occupancy of the STR.
  e) Approval from Neighbors – No
  f) Notify Neighbors – Yes, but is it really enforceable?
  g) Cap on number of STRs allowed? – No. Not fair to those who are
  “late to the game”. Could always be revisited if there is concern there are
  too many rentals.
  C. Proposed Language: Municipal Civil Infractions
• What does “plus court costs” mean? We don’t want to be taking everyone to
  court.
• Should we charge a fee for a zoning permit? We all agree we should. L’Anse
  township charges $35.
• Buddy to review section & suggest changes he’d like to see for next meeting,
  if any.
  IV. Next meetings
  A. Wednesday February 28th – Planning Commission Work Session @ 6:00pm
  B. Township Board Meeting: Monday, March 4th @ 6:00pm
  C. Public Budget Meeting: Wednesday, March 27th @ 4:30pm
  D. 2024 Quarterly Meetings
• Wednesday, April 10
• Thursday, July 11
• Thursday, October 10
  Adjourn: Nancy Adjourned. 7:10pm

Call to Order
Roll Call
Nancy Strohschein (Chair), Joe Bollech (Board of Review), Bob Janda (Board Rep), Robert Lindert (Vice Chair & Secretary), Jay Loman (Board of Review Chair), Donna Preston – Absent with notice
Pledge of Allegiance: Recited
Introductions/Guests: Jason McCarthy attended via phone call
Approval of Agenda: Robert motioned, Bob seconded
Approval of minutes of December 21, 2023 Work Session: Robert motioned, Jay seconded.
Agenda:
I. Chairman comments:
A. Official records for PC. 2008 – December 2023

• Going to be locked in the office.
  B. Official records moving forward
• Need a way to get all future documents to Lisa Marinich.
  C. 2024 Annual Report to Board will be given Monday, February 5
• PC estimates that we are 80% complete with ordinance update.
  D. Lack of Zoning Administrator impedes our work.
  II. Recreation Committee
  A. Recommendation to Board on Monday, Feb 5?
• PC to write grant, Lisa will submit the grant. This way Lisa has very little work
  to do and PC maintains responsibility of grant writing process.
  III. Ordinance Update – Led by Jason
  A. First review of Article 15
• Made various changes to Jason’s draft of Article 15.
  B. Next meeting topics
• Robert to get better definition of Dark Sky Outdoor Lighting.
• Jason to update Article 15 to reflect changes made in this meeting.
• Jason to present article on civil infractions for next meeting.
  IV. Next meetings
  A. Tuesday February 13th – Planning Commission Work Session
  B. 2024 Quarterly Meetings
• Wednesday, April 10
• Thursday, July 11
• Thursday, October 10
  Adjourn: Robert motioned, Bob seconded. 8:37pm

Call to Order
Roll Call
Nancy Strohschein (Chair)
Joe Bollech (Board of Review)
Bob Janda (Board Rep) – Absent with notice
Robert Lindert (Vice Chair & Secretary)
Jay Loman (Board of Review Chair)
Donna Preston – Absent with notice
Pledge of Allegiance: Recited
Introductions/Guests: Jason McCarthy attended via phone call
Approval of Agenda: Joe motioned, Jay seconded
Approval of minutes of November 9, 2023 Work Session: Robert motioned, Jay seconded.
Agenda:
I. Housekeeping
A. Chair: Post meetings on website calendar.
B. Members: Be familiar with the website for our documents.
C. Chair: Agenda for an upcoming meeting must be sent out to PC a week before
the meeting.
D. Joe: Post meeting notice at Fire Hall or Town Hall few days before the meeting.
E. Secretary: Minutes of the last meeting should be sent out to all PC members the
week before the meeting.
F. Secretary: Approved minutes need to be sent to Kay Erickson to be put on the
township website. Mary Erickson maryk.erickson.me@gmail.com Please note
this is not the official copy of the minutes.
G. Secretary or Chair: Place approved agenda and minutes in notebooks in Fire Hall
office. This is the official copy.
H. Quarterly PC meetings have been added to the Sentinel Notices in Brief. This
needs to be requested annually.
II. Recreation Plan
A. Final compiled plan received from Jason. Will be posted on website.
B. Status of submission to DNR? Lisa Marinich needs to post it.
C. Comments not part of Rec Plan – No action taken yet
D. Recreation Committee

• Update from request to board on December 4, 2023
• Jason to provide public act describing duties of and requirements for the
  Recreation Committee
• Jason reached out to MI Township Association for information on recreation
  committees.
  2
• Jason suggests a work session agenda item to probe for recreation
  committee members—perhaps advertise the work session meeting to the
  individuals who listed themselves as interested in the recreation committee.
• A question was asked about Section 4 of the Recreation Committee Duties
  and Responsibilities document regarding attending meetings remotely. Jason
  clarified this was from a temporary COVID-19 policy that allowed remote
  attendance of public meetings.
  III. Ordinance Update – Led by Jason
  A. Jason provided some examples and templates of Marquette Township zoning
  ordinances such as a sign ordinance for discussion.
  B. Went through newly added definitions and old definitions to finalize them.
• Added Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) to first page definitions
• Remove greenbelt line about “see page 55-56”
• Move mobile home requirements to later in the ordinance as they don’t
  belong in the definition
• Remove “native protection strip”
• Remove “lodges”
• “ECHO” removed, converted to ADU
• Added “not a mobile home” to “RV” definition.
• Update “nuisance” definition to that which was used in the adopted wind
  energy ordinance definition. This way our definitions match.
  C. Zoning Districts
• Added duplex to General Residential (GR)
• Added ADU & Short Term Rental (STR) to GR subject to special conditions.
• Many small changes to Recreation Residential (RR) district. Made language
  more consistent with modern ordinances. For example “single family” vs
  “primary”
• Move STR to permitted use in every district but GR. In GR it will be subject to
  special conditions. Regardless, in every district they will require a permit.
• In Forest Resource (FR) removed point 6 about gravel/sand extraction and
  instead used “Mining/Mineral Extraction” which is defined in our definitions.
• In FR we moved STR and single family back into permitted uses.
• In Farm & Forest (FF) we cleaned up some of the duplicate permitted uses.
• Shipping containers, since they are not a primary use, will be handled later in
  the ordinance.
  D. Signs
• Jay commented about real estate signage term of 1 year, most agreed we
  didn’t like this.
  3
• Lots of thoughts on LED signs, to be tabled for later discussion. Jason to
  provide example on signage lighting requirements.
• Change “temporary political signs” to “temporary election signs”
• Permit only required for signs in a business district
• Remove permit for constructions signs
• Sign variance discission fits with current doing of variances. This is OK.
  IV. Next meetings
  A. December 21st, 2023 @ 6:00PM: Planning Commission work session
  B. 2024 quarterly meetings will be moved to Thursdays at 6 PM.
• January 11
• April 11
• July 11
• October 10
  Adjourn: Robert motioned, Jay seconded. 7:30pm

Call to Order
Roll Call
Nancy Strohschein (Chair),Joe Bollech (Board of Review), Bob Janda (Board Rep) – Absent with notice Robert Lindert (Vice Chair & Secretary), Jay Loman (Board of Review Chair)
Donna Preston – Absent with notice
Pledge of Allegiance: Recited
Introductions/Guests: Jason McCarthy attended via phone call
Approval of Agenda: Joe motioned, Jay seconded
Approval of minutes of November 9, 2023 Work Session: Robert motioned, Jay seconded.
Agenda:
I. Housekeeping
A. Chair: Post meetings on website calendar.
B. Members: Be familiar with the website for our documents.
C. Chair: Agenda for an upcoming meeting must be sent out to PC a week before
the meeting.
D. Joe: Post meeting notice at Fire Hall or Town Hall few days before the meeting.
E. Secretary: Minutes of the last meeting should be sent out to all PC members the
week before the meeting.
F. Secretary: Approved minutes need to be sent to Kay Erickson to be put on the
township website. Mary Erickson maryk.erickson.me@gmail.com Please note
this is not the official copy of the minutes.
G. Secretary or Chair: Place approved agenda and minutes in notebooks in Fire Hall
office. This is the official copy.
H. Quarterly PC meetings have been added to the Sentinel Notices in Brief. This
needs to be requested annually.
II. Recreation Plan
A. Final compiled plan received from Jason. Will be posted on website.
B. Status of submission to DNR? Lisa Marinich needs to post it.
C. Comments not part of Rec Plan – No action taken yet
D. Recreation Committee

• Update from request to board on December 4, 2023
• Jason to provide public act describing duties of and requirements for the
  Recreation Committee
• Jason reached out to MI Township Association for information on recreation
  committees.
  2
• Jason suggests a work session agenda item to probe for recreation
  committee members—perhaps advertise the work session meeting to the
  individuals who listed themselves as interested in the recreation committee.
• A question was asked about Section 4 of the Recreation Committee Duties
  and Responsibilities document regarding attending meetings remotely. Jason
  clarified this was from a temporary COVID-19 policy that allowed remote
  attendance of public meetings.
  III. Ordinance Update – Led by Jason
  A. Jason provided some examples and templates of Marquette Township zoning
  ordinances such as a sign ordinance for discussion.
  B. Went through newly added definitions and old definitions to finalize them.
• Added Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) to first page definitions
• Remove greenbelt line about “see page 55-56”
• Move mobile home requirements to later in the ordinance as they don’t
  belong in the definition
• Remove “native protection strip”
• Remove “lodges”
• “ECHO” removed, converted to ADU
• Added “not a mobile home” to “RV” definition.
• Update “nuisance” definition to that which was used in the adopted wind
  energy ordinance definition. This way our definitions match.
  C. Zoning Districts
• Added duplex to General Residential (GR)
• Added ADU & Short Term Rental (STR) to GR subject to special conditions.
• Many small changes to Recreation Residential (RR) district. Made language
  more consistent with modern ordinances. For example “single family” vs
  “primary”
• Move STR to permitted use in every district but GR. In GR it will be subject to
  special conditions. Regardless, in every district they will require a permit.
• In Forest Resource (FR) removed point 6 about gravel/sand extraction and
  instead used “Mining/Mineral Extraction” which is defined in our definitions.
• In FR we moved STR and single family back into permitted uses.
• In Farm & Forest (FF) we cleaned up some of the duplicate permitted uses.
• Shipping containers, since they are not a primary use, will be handled later in
  the ordinance.
  D. Signs
• Jay commented about real estate signage term of 1 year, most agreed we
  didn’t like this.
  3
• Lots of thoughts on LED signs, to be tabled for later discussion. Jason to
  provide example on signage lighting requirements.
• Change “temporary political signs” to “temporary election signs”
• Permit only required for signs in a business district
• Remove permit for constructions signs
• Sign variance discission fits with current doing of variances. This is OK.
  IV. Next meetings
  A. December 21st, 2023 @ 6:00PM: Planning Commission work session
  B. 2024 quarterly meetings will be moved to Thursdays at 6 PM.
• January 11
• April 11
• July 11
• October 10
  Adjourn: Robert motioned, Jay seconded. 7:30pm