May & June Township Board Meeting Video Links

May Meeting

June Meeting



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Link to the Benzie County Economic Development Action Plan

Benzie County Economic Development Action Plan Click Here

(excerpts from the plan)

Benzie County Economic Development Strategic Plan 

Introduction 

3-4-2015 Joyfield Township Board Minutes

Planning Commission Minutes 2-19-2015

More Information on Proposal One Fix the Roads

This photo came from the Benzie County Chamber of Commerce, who remains neutral on the issue, to inform the citizens. 

Link to the Representative Ray Franz Handout:

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Proposed Zoning Presentation Video Link

Joyfield PC meeting 3-19-2015 click here    John from Beckett & Raeder gave a presentation regarding this new idea for zoning the township.  

Proposed Zoning Map-

At the meeting of the Joyfield Planning Commission last night, John from Beckett & Raeder presented this never before tried and trend setting idea of zoning in Joyfield township to preserve the rural character.   While the model is Joyfield Road, all roads in the township will, if the JPC goes forward with this, will have land use set back regulations.  We believe the idea of this is to prevent building close to the road which would affect the scenic and rural character of the township.   There is video of this meeting. The picture is a bit uneven, because the handout was too large to fit into a regular picture, used a panoramic setting so it could be posted as a whole picture. 

Planning Commission Minutes from January 15th Meeting.

The Joyfield Planning Commission does not make their minutes readily available for public inspection.  They've refused requests for these minutes to be emailed to requesters.  They do not post them on the Town Hall Door.  An informal request to receive them, with an offer of payment for copy costs, has been sketchy and ignored, for the most part.  A FOIA request/subscription for JPC minutes may be the next move to make.   Here's a rare glimpse of a set of JPC minutes.   RFP is REQUEST for PROPOSAL.  This is regarding hiring a consultant to begin the zoning process.  

Link to 2-19-2015 Joyfield Township Planning Commission Meeting video.  

February 2015 Board Minutes and Proposed Budget

Notice "Contingency" now has $3500.00 in it and there's a negative balance in FY NET

RE: Fix the Roads- Info on Michigan's Transportation Revenue Ballot Proposal

This 14 page handout---  (click on 'read more')

Examples of Township Newsletters: Joyfield Says They Can't Afford to do one.

These Newsletters came in Tax Bills- the only extra cost to the townships were the ink, paper and the time to put one together, unless

Planning Commission- Agenda of Meeting 1-15-2015

Betsy wrote a RFP(request for proposal) to send to companies who write zoning ordinances professionally, to help Joyfield PC with their Zoning Ordinance.  A suggestion made during Public Input was that since Joyfield is similar to Colfax & Weldon, looking at their new Zoning Ordinance might be helpful.  The PC did not appear to be open to that suggestion

Agenda & Question

The Joyfield Township Board requested