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Special meeting is July 13 on Dorr PC appointment

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A special meeting of the Dorr Township Board has been called for 7 p.m. Thursday, July 13, to make an appointment to the Dorr Township Planning Commission. The meeting is necessary because the Township Board June 29 was deadlocked at 3-3 on the reappointment of Bob Wagner for a three-year...
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City to have election for 3 council seats in November

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Three Wayland City Council seats will be expire in the November general election and all three incumbents are beating the bushes to seek another two-year term. Mayor Pro Tem Jennifer Antel and Council Members Rick Mathis and Lisa Banas will be on the ballot. There have been no reports of anyone...
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Yes It Is, It’s True: Dorr’s soap opera begins 7th chapter

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The 3-3 deadlock Thursday on the reappointment of longtime Planning Commission Chairman Bob Wagner represents the beginning of the seventh chapter of the soap opera that is Dorr Township politics. The soap opera has lasted six years, and it is amazing Dorr Township has been able to accomplish much of...
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Dorr Twp. Board fails to reappoint longtime PC chairman

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Unless Dorr Township Supervisor Jeff Miling can pull together a special meeting before July 18, Dorr Township Planning Commission Chairman Bob Wagner will not be a voting member of the commission at its next meeting. The Township Board, in a 3-3 deadlock Thursday evening, failed to have him reappointed to...
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Dorr Plan Commission wants Twp. Board input on marijuana

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Discussions about medical marijuana dispensaries continue for area municipalities in the wake of a state law passed last fall and in anticipation of a state-wide ballot proposal likely to take place in November 2018. The Dorr Township Planning Commission was asked by Township Clerk Debbie Sewers to take up the...
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Dorr Twp. temp office business site plan, special use OK’d

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The Dorr Township Planning Commission Tuesday night approved the site plan and special use permit for McDonald Modular Solutions to operate a temporary office business at the corner of 14th Street and 142nd Avenue Final approval for rezoning the 10.16-acre parcel east of the downtown just north of Bysterveld Park...
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City Plan Commission tables decision on PERC zoning

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The Wayland City Planning Commission Tuesday evening after a public hearing tabled a proposal to eliminate Planned Enterprise Residential Cluster (PERC) zoning designation. Only four of the seven commissioners were present to take comments from several people interested in the issue. Planner Kirk Scharphorn Jr. of Professional Code Inspections earlier...
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Watson Twp. gets 3rd request for marijuana dispensary

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Watson Township appears to be the most popular choice for proposals for medical marijuana dispensaries. The Township Board was presented with a request from Shawn Gary of Third Coast Horticulture, LLC, of Watson. represented by Robert Hendriks. The board tabled the proposal and has declined thus far to craft an...
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It’s foolhardy to apply term limits policy to Dorr Township

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ACHTUNG: This is not a fair and balanced story. It is an editorial by the editor. It continues to amaze me how many people still are misled by the promise and failure of term limits. This nasty business reared its ugly head once again Thursday night at the Dorr Township...
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Dorr Twp. ZBA reappointments take up time, discussion

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Yet another customarily routine item took up a lot of time and discussion at Thursday night’s Dorr Township Board meeting. This time it was the reappointment of two members of the Zoning Board of Appeals for three-year terms. The ZBA members, both of whom indicated they were willing to continue to...
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