MEETING MINUTES

ELM RIVER TOWNSHIP PLANNING COMMISSION

REGULAR MEETING NOVEMBER 12, 2009 6:00 P.M.

 

1.      Call to Order:

Vice Chair Reiss called the meeting to order at with a quorum present at 6:03 p.m. at the Elm River Township Hall.

 

2.      Roll Call:

Members Present: B. Sibilsky, D. Johnson, J. Reiss, and T. Condon

Members Absent: Chairman S. Hagan arrived 6:12 p.m.

Visitors: present Supervisor Maki, and others *note various attendants for the T.B. meeting arrived throughout the meeting.

 

3.      Approval of the Agenda: 

Commissioner Condon motioned to accept agenda with addition of New Business Budget, supported by Commissioner Sibilsky

VOICE VOTE: All ayes.  November 12, 2009 Agenda approved.

 

4.      Approval of Meeting Minutes from: October 15, 2009

Commissioner Condon motioned to approve Regular Meeting Minutes of October 15, 2009 supported by Vice Chair Reiss.

VOICE VOTE: All ayes.  October 15, 2009 Meeting Minutes approved.

 

5.      Scheduled Public Hearings: none

 

6.      Other Matters for Review: none

 

7.      Correspondences:

 

8.      Old Business:

a.      Township Board Report:

                                                               i.      Supervisor Maki clarified differences between Non-Zoning Ordinances and Zoning Ordinances, authority of town board to enact, land division ordinance, blight, junk car and noise ordinances.  County ordinances, process.  Master Plan can have verbiages with similar.  Plan Commission would like newsletter to clarify, so that residents may be better informed, as some members are getting phone calls.

                                                             ii.      Commissioner Sibilsky reported the T.B. received a 2010 Census detailed map, not sure if it will good for our use.

b.      Progress on Sections of Master Plan 

                                                               i.      Chair Hagan same

                                                             ii.      Commissioner Condon No new direction, expressed need for maps.

                                                            iii.      Commissioner Sibilsky Working on getting pictures and Census Map.

                                                           iv.      Vice Chair Reiss Working on verbiage, may need help with graphs, will invite Susan Burack and GIS Nels Anderson to December meeting.

Correction: Vice-Chair Reiss working on verbiage may need help with graphs, will invite Susan Burack to December meeting.  Chair Hagan will invite GIS Nels Anderson to December meeting.

                                                             v.      Secretary Johnson gathering information.

c.      Status of Survey

                                                               i.      Thank you to Secretary Johnson for posting presentation on the township web site.  Noted that you will need recent version of Adobe Reader to download.

                                                             ii.      Commissioner Condon surmised impressions from board on presentation, majority plus, few minus, 30 – 30 – 40 on zoning.

 

9.      New Business:

a.      Meeting Dates 2010 and remainder of year

                                                               i.      Chair Hagan motion the following meeting dates for the remainder of 2009 and 2010 through September, secretary Johnson supported.

VOICE VOTE: All ayes.   Meeting Dates approved.

December 17, 2009 changed to December 16 @ 7 p.m.

January 21, @ 7 p.m.

February 11, @ 6 p.m. then Joint with T.B. 7 p.m.

March 11, @ 7 p.m.

April 8, @ 7 p.m.

May ? joint meeting with T.B.

June 14 @ 7 p.m.

July 12 @ 7 p.m.

August  ? joint meeting with T.B.

September 13 @ 7 p.m.

b.      Budget

need to gather hard cost data for T.B. annual Budget meeting in March.

 

10.  Public Hearing Dates next meeting December 16, 2009 @ 7:00 p.m.

 

11.  Public Comment (3 minutes):

 

a.      Tom Ward asked if board was working with the County Plan: Chair Hagan responded yes that it would dovetail county plan.

b.      Mary Ann Jarvi asked about changes to Bill Nichols Trail: Chair Hagan responded that would be a question for the T.B.

 

12.  Additional Comments Planning Commission: none noted

 

13.  Adjournment:

Secretary Johnson motioned to adjourn, supported by Commissioner Condon

VOICE VOTE: All ayes.  Meeting adjourned 6:45 p.m.

 

 

Minutes Approved on ____________________________________________________

 

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Secretary                                                        Chairperson