Thursday, February 16, 2023
Call to Order: 6 p.m.
Roll Call: Nancy Strohschein, Chairperson; Linnea Barron, Secretary; Joe Bollech, Trustee; Bob Janda, Township Board Representative; Robert Lindert, Vice Chairman; Jay Loman, absent with notice; Donna Preston, absent with notice.
Pledge of Allegiance: Recited
Guests: None.
Approval of Agenda: Bob made a motion to approve the agenda, seconded by Robert. Motion carried.
Approval of minutes of January 24, 2023 meeting: Robert made a motion to approve the minutes, seconded by Joe. Motion carried.
Agenda:
1. Recreation Plan: We reviewed the first three sections, Introduction, Community Description, and Administrative Structure, in the proposed plan with the changes that Jason made. We still feel the map on page 2, Figure 2, could be larger or just different from map, Figure 1.
The new sections we reviewed were: Recreation Inventory; Description of the Planning Process; and Description of the Public Input Process. In the Recreation Inventory, we removed Roland Lake from the inventory as we do not own it and placed this site under possible new category, Other Natural Resources. Also in this section under the Arvon Township Waterfront Parcels we would list only the 34 acres of undeveloped Lake Superior frontage property, the 38-acre parcel near Vicks Point and the 100-foot strip of property at Witz Marina as properties that we own. The Witz Marina, trails and rustic camping at Pointe Abbaye and the area managed by the Keweenaw Land Trust at Lightfoot Bay would be listed under Other Natural Resources. In the Description of the Public Input Process, we changed the order so that the Community Survey would be the first step for us followed by the Early Public Input, next would be the 30-day Review Period and closing with the Public Hearing & Resolution of Adoption.
We also noted some minor typos that need to be corrected.
Other Recreation Resources include: Roland Lake, Point Abbaye, Witz Marina, Silver River access, Big Erick’s campground, Lightfoot Bay Nature Reserve, Aura Town Hall and Ballfield, Skanee cemetery and Ravine River cemetery, Arvon Township historical museum. Natural features include: Waterfalls (Silver River Falls, Quartzite Falls, Letherby Falls), the slate quarry, mouth of the Huron River and Mount Arvon.
The survey, paper and on-line version, was reviewed in detail. On #4 to save some room on the survey we combined some recreations. We eliminated question #10 as unnecessary. We set the date, May 8, 2023, as the person input session. Tentative date of May 16, 2023 set for work session. Tentative date for public hearing in June with final board approval at July 10, 2023 township board meeting. Completed recreation plan set for August.
2. Zoning Ordinance.
The need for a noise ordinance was brought up with a recent incident that occurred. This would involve airB&B’s, short-term rentals, etc.
Adjourn: Nancy made a motion to adjourn, seconded by Joe. Motion carried. Work session ended at 7;50 p.m.
Next meeting: Thursday, March 2, 2023, tentative.
Submitted by Linnea Barron, Secretary