The Dorr Township Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) elected officers for 2017 at its March 16 quarterly meeting.

Elected unanimously were Robert Traxler to serve a second term as Chairman, Jim Vote to be vice chairman, a new position this term, and re-elected Ethel Visser, who has served on the ZBA for more than 41 years, the recording secretary. Mrs. Visser was commended by all members of the ZBA for the high quality of her work as secretary and her decades of selfless service.

Traxler also serves as vice chairman of the Dorr Township Planning Commission.

The ZBA is expecting an increase in requests for appeals of the zoning regulations with the increase in development in Dorr Township that is forecast this year.

Other ZBA members are Les Myers and Jim Schaendorf.

PHOTO: Robert M. Traxler