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Township to Host Joint Meeting
Pubdate: Tue, 11 Jan 2011
Source: Rockford Independent (MI)
Copyright: 2011 Stafford Communications Group
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TOWNSHIP TO HOST JOINT MEETING
Plainfield Township will conduct a joint meeting incorporating
members of the Township Board, Planning Commission and Zoning Board
of Appeals Tuesday. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Officials are hoping to firm up the township's position on two hot
items: medical marijuana and the parking of recreational vehicles,
such as trailers, campers, RVs and ATV vehicles, in residential districts.
Township Community Planner Bill Fischer said because the topics are
touchy, the township wanted to get all of its decision makers in one
room to develop a game plan for addressing these issues.
He said board members will listen to an update from the township
attorney on what is currently being looked at in Lansing pertaining
to the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act as well as what other
municipalities are facing as they try to take action and accommodate
or ban the patient-caregiver relationship.
The expiration date of Plainfield Township's second six-month
moratorium that temporarily banned the sale or dispersal of medical
marijuana is coming up in March. The township will need to decide by
then how to move forward.
Additionally, right now township residents may park a camper, et
cetera, in front of their home in the driveway for three days.
"But some people may have it parked there the whole summer - it is
very difficult to enforce," Fischer said.
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