Regulations Optional?

Attorneys collude with other officials and professional staff to conceal and perpetuate intentional violations of state law and local ordi...

Central Michigan University's newspaper, Central Michigan Life, blocks discussion of Mt. Pleasant city officials conduct.

City Planner misrepresents site in connection with Planning Commission chairman's Special Use Permit application. Planning Commission ...

Questions - Planning Commission 04.09.15 meeting

Questions: ZBA-03-2015 - 1024 & 1026 S. Main, ZBA-04-2015 - 316 W. May

... while the city attorney enjoys a raise.

City commission adopts Master Plan despite recognition the plan does not embody current policy or intended direction.

Acknowledging the city's current policies are not a reflection of the currently adopted Master Plan; and,

The Morning Sun reports planning commissioners opt to keep procedures the same

Training supported by attorneys, consultants, and 'professional' city staff:

Willful blindness excuses no one; however, it might buy reduced jail time.

Is it the city's Director of Community Services, the city's Legal Counsel or the city's Independent Contractor?

Rife with logical fallacy Randi Shaffer's report in the The Morning Sun appears contrived, as if the author and the expert were teamed ...

Contrary to statement in their public notice city officials have known for years that authority for their actions does not exist. Public ...

Five years [ at least ] following implementation, two years following disclosure, city officials bring on the professionals to sell their...

Alan Bean, Spicer Group, Inc. Engineers - Surveyors - Planners versus Doug Piggott, Rowe Professional Services Company Engineering - S...

Mt. Pleasant city officials raise the bar for Jimmy Johns; delivery precedes phone hookup.

Four years in development, endorsed, implemented (albeit illegally) and updated, lastly the city hires consultants to recreate and advocat...

City forecasts fund balances totaling $18.7 million dollars at the end of 2013. The city's budget reports twenty-six fund balances in ...

General fund spending, illustrated below, increases $1.1 million dollars from pre-recession levels with the city's 2013 budget. Spendin...

City manager Kathie Grinzinger concludes only two solutions exist for 2014 and beyond: services must be re-ordered or eliminated, or reve...

City's website provides documentation of intentional breach of duty; officials acting without authority and their intention to contin...

Mt. Pleasant city officials qualify for membership in the Felons Pending Conviction club. Their disregard for membership deterrents:

... or was that perpetrating Unethical counsel facilitating intentional breach of positive statutory duty.

Planning Commission chair discloses the commission and Zoning Board of Appeals are not discharging their duties and responsibilities in ...

Planners, city staffers and the Zoning Board of Appeals have worked out variance criteria not found in the zoning ordinance; their 'O...

City planning director and commissioners provide glimpse of their density standard during consideration of 1003 Douglas proposal.

... and proud of it How to subvert State and Local Statutes Step 1 Target: Existing: Request: 1003 Douglas - 2 units - 2 units - Co...

January 23, 2012 City Commission Moved by Vice Mayor Ling and supported by Commissioner Joslin to endorse the “Project Scope: Master Pla...

Too Senseless to Fail ...

Development proposed for 1003 Douglas is scheduled for planning commission consideration May 3, 2012; the sixth time city officials have ...

The zoning board of appeals has responded with - we don't do statutorily authorized and properly adopted - scheduling 1003 Douglas f...

One week+ and city officials have twice confirmed receipt of the question/clarification request . Perhaps the effort of a second receipt c...

City officials choose illegal circumvention of properly adopted standards and procedures to carry out their undisclosed plan . Officials p...

The chronicles of Mt. Pleasant, MI Planning and Zoning The Ordinance, the Master Plan, ...

Scheduled back to back, March 28/29, 2012, the zoning board of appeals and planning commission will consider two overbuilding proposals: 2...

Do you have the talent to be a municipal administrator?

In second meetings following advice their actions were inconsistent with training and law 1 , the zoning board of appeals and planning com...

September 7, 2011 the Planning Commission approves site plan SPR-11-09. The approval was based on compliance with ZBA requirements. State a...

August 24, 2011 the Zoning Board of Appeals conducts several non-appeal hearings in which they review and determine site plans do not confo...

City officials recast administration from perpetual confusion to felony misconduct , intentional breach of positive statutory duty.

Despite commissioners having stated the process is unfamiliar and makes no sense the Zoning Board of Appeals continues non-appeal hearings...

Effective October 25, 2010 the city of Mt. Pleasant obtained an option to purchase all or part of the state-owned property commonly known ...

In the third of four hearings imposed prior to permitting development, L-1 Bar & Grille received liquor license approval from the city...

Timeline The planning commission undertook conforming the zoning ordinance with provisions of the Michigan Zoning Enabling Act on Decembe...

Considering the January 6, 2011 planning commission meeting with context of city code § 154.171(A) Criteria for special use permits and c...

A testament to the ineptness and inefficiency possible when public officials condone violation of state and local statutes; the November 2...

A request earlier this year, to convert a building located in an office service zoning district to residential duplex use (SUP-10-04), ill...

The Morning Sun, a newspaper serving central Michigan, provides an online edition allowing reader interaction. Controversy over a Mt. Plea...

Attempts to cause Mt. Pleasant city officials comply with city and state zoning regulations began with a simple request in May 2004, foll...

Correspondence from City Attorney contradicts plain statement in city code , see Office Humor . Full text opinion letter included in Denie...

Caveat - City officials routinely disregard regulatory provisions