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BLOG: 2.4.25 Asking the Harbor Springs City Council to decouple the RRC by Karin Offield

Please include in the Planning Commission packet if possible, Thank you! February 3rd, 2025 Harbor Springs City Council Meeting Submitted for the public record as a request for a new business agenda item Honorable Mayor Graham Councilperson Behrmann Councilperson Melke Councilperson Motschall Counci

February 4, 2025

Letter to Editor - M.Kilbourn About the RRC

LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE HARBOR LIGHT January 9, 2025 Please accept this letter for publication in the Letters to the Editor: The City Council enacted a zoning ordinance which the voters evaluated and rejected via a ballot referendum last November. Since then, the City Council has been busy attem

January 15, 2025

12.13.24 Letter to Harbor Springs City Council by JR Elliot

December 13, 2024

12.5.24 Conflict of Interest (COI) : Letter to City Council

From: Ashley O'Reilly <ashleymkor@icloud.com> Date: December 5, 2024 at 5:23:17 PM GMT To: Graham Tom <tom@grahamre.com>, Michael Behrmann <mhbehrmann@gmail.com>, Jamie Melke <Jamielynnmelke@gmail.com>, kathy.motschall@yahoo.com, wendy@reeve4hscouncil.com Cc: Victor Sinadinoski <citymgr@cityofharbor

December 13, 2024

ZONING: Correction made: What's Happening to the Mobile Home Park? 5.06.2014

UPDATE & Correction. WLHS researched and found the ownership of the trailer park had changed, but only within the family - not as a new buyer/seller situation. The changes in fees being charged were explained to be "updates" for years old inconsistencies in the billings of residents. Here is a lette

May 10, 2024

4.30.24 Unintended Consequences, Please sign the Change . Org Petition

To the Harbor Springs Community, Regarding the Redevelopment Ready Community (RRC) National & Michigan Program: There are unintended consequences that I believe have not been thought out or organized – and there are property owners that are unaware of these changes being proposed by the Planing & Zo

April 30, 2024

Letter: 4.30.24 Silence Speaks Volumes by Patrick Kenney

Letter to the Editor: In May 2019, having lived in Harbor Springs for less than one month, the newly appointed city manager, Victor Sinadinoski, for some reason, felt he had a thorough understanding of Harbor Springs and that our quaint town needed to become an RRC. On May 20, 2019, incredulously fo

April 30, 2024

Letter: "Affordable Housing has left the station": by Maureen Kenney

Dear Editor: I write not as a “character assassin,” a term carelessly thrown around by a Planning Commission Member, but rather as a concerned citizen intent on holding elected and appointed city leaders accountable for their words and actions. This letter serves the dual purpose of shedding light o

April 30, 2024

Letter: 4.30.24 To the Editor: Re: Nancy Rondell & Hope by James Kenney

Dear Editor: In an October 2020 interview with the Harbor Light, while running for city council, Councilwoman Nancy Rondell highlighted the importance of local government in Harbor Springs, encouraging input from all residents. She insisted, “It is so important that our city government encourages in

April 30, 2024