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1 week ago | 
record-eagle.com | Kathryn Depauw |Jordan Travis
TRAVERSE CITY — Traverse City will begin enforcing the city's no-camping ordinance on May 6, effectively banning people without homes from staying in the encampment known as the Pines. This policy change would come in response to the adoption of a special land-use permit allowing Safe Harbor to become a year-round emergency shelter, according to a press release issued Tuesday by the Traverse City Police Department.
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1 week ago | 
record-eagle.com | Jordan Travis
TRAVERSE CITY — As Traverse City continues to issue more short-term rental licenses each year, city commissioners are considering whether new regulations are needed. Commissioners on Monday agreed they’re interested in revisiting short-term renting rules, which have gone untouched since city leaders placed limits on multi-unit buildings in C-1 Office Service and C-2 Neighborhood Center commercial districts in 2020.
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1 week ago | 
record-eagle.com | Jordan Travis
TRAVERSE CITY — A federal judge tossed much of a developer's lawsuit challenging Traverse City's tall buildings vote requirement. Judge Paul Maloney of the U.S. District Court of Western Michigan sided with the city's arguments that 326 Land Company doesn't have a vested right to a building taller than 60 feet.
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2 weeks ago | 
record-eagle.com | Jordan Travis
TRAVERSE CITY — A parking lot in downtown Traverse City is the spot where Homestretch Nonprofit Housing wants to build apartments with rents as low as $429 per month. First, the developer will need Low Income Housing Tax Credits from the Michigan State Housing Development Authority. The developer cleared a crucial step toward receiving those tax credits Monday when city commissioners approved a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreement for the project.
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2 weeks ago | 
record-eagle.com | Jordan Travis
TRAVERSE CITY — Lack of consensus prompted Traverse City commissioners to shelve a proposed increase to two-family residential zoning. Commissioners on Monday agreed to set aside the proposed amendment for now. It would have allowed four dwellings on a single two-family residential lot. That would have been limited to two structures, meaning two duplexes, a triplex and single-family home or a quadplex.
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2 weeks ago | 
record-eagle.com | Jordan Travis
TRAVERSE CITY — As an overnight shelter in Traverse City inches closer to switching to year-round operations, city officials will set a date when police start enforcing a no-camping ordinance. City Manager Liz Vogel said the date to enforce that ordinance in the place called the Pines — as city parkland at Division and Eleventh Street is called — hasn’t been determined. But city staff and service providers are working on a date she said will be announced next week.
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2 weeks ago | 
record-eagle.com | Jordan Travis
LELAND — The National Park Service is a step closer to replacing docks on North and South Manitou islands, but the ferry company that's shuttled people to and from the islands for more than a century is claiming another breach of contract. The NPS on March 17 signed a Finding of No Significant Impact for the $32 million project that aims to solve a problem with shifting sands on North Manitou and high water on South Manitou. Construction should start in the spring.
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3 weeks ago | 
record-eagle.com | Jordan Travis
ST. JAMES — Power line crews were still scrambling to deal with the aftermath of a long weekend of wild weather, including on Beaver Island where some homes might not get power back for days or even weeks. That’s according to Robert Cole, support staff for Beaver Island Community Center. It’s one of a handful of warming centers open on the island, and he’s been keeping tabs on the situation to keep the 450 to 500 year-round residents there informed via social media.
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3 weeks ago | 
record-eagle.com | Jordan Travis
GRAWN — Meijer’s plans to build a third Traverse City-area grocery store near Chum’s Corner got Blair Township Planning Commissioners’ thumbs-up. Planning board members on Tuesday recommended that Blair Township trustees approve Meijer’s request to build a 161,221-square-foot store with a garden center, drive-through pharmacy and gas station in two 6-0 votes – one for the site plan and another for the special uses. Commissioner Bob Boeve was absent.
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3 weeks ago | 
record-eagle.com | Jordan Travis
GLEN ARBOR - Kerry Kelly still remembers how a plan to surprise Leonard Thoreson on his 90th birthday nearly backfired. Thoreson came out to the farm where he grew up in Port Oneida for the Port Oneida Fair as he did every year, but this time something was different.
