Protect Lake Charlevoix Shoreland

10/11/2024

We mailed out this flyer to all residents in Hayes Township.

07/28/2024

On the ballot in Hayes Township is shoreland protection. The current board of trustees running for re-election is backed by Scott Law.

Challenger candidates are Bill Conklin, Sherry Baker-McCary, Kevin Willis and Laura Ford. They'll protect Lake Charlevoix and all the lakes and streams and keep our good zoning ordinance. See https://hayesvotersforchange.org

04/29/2023

Scott and Debra Law seem to be deep-sixing their boathouse and excavation project. And they're selling off some of their land on the Lake Charlevoix waterfront. The reason could be this: their family-controlled company Zotec Partners is in serious financial trouble, and owes $307 million in the next 12 months after losing its major customer.

Still, they have a federal permit and state permit to do the project. And Hayes Township Planning Commissioners are re-drafting the zoning ordinance to permit such an excavation if state and federal permits are in hand.

The Carmel, Indiana-based revenue cycle management provider holds some $307M in loans that are due within a year but has struggled to refinance.

04/19/2023

Once again, no news from Hayes Planning Commission on zoning ordinance rewrite.

04/11/2023

Yet another Hayes Township Planning Commission meeting is scheduled, for April 18 at 7 pm. Will we ever see the commissioners' edits on the draft Zoning Ordinance???? Come in person or attend by Zoom. Go to the Hayes Township website for agenda and zoom link (it's not there yet). www.hayestownshipmi.gov

03/25/2023

Come to the March 28 Planning Commission meeting, 7 pm, Hayes Township Hall. The revised draft of the zoning ordinance is NOT on the township website yet!

03/18/2023

Front page story in the Charlevoix Courier headline:
"Regional Plans in the Works to protect Lake Charlevoix shoreline" reporting on the Tip of the Mitt's recommendations to City of Charlevoix and all other municipalities around the lake. They'll be going to Hayes Township's Planning Commission meeting on March 28 at 7 pm, Hayes Township Hall.

The intent is to develop a vision for the individual communities on Lake Charlevoix and a collaborative plan for protection of the lake as a whole.

02/17/2023

Protect Lake Charlevoix Shoreland directors will be featured speakers at the upcoming Michigan Lakes and Streams Association's annual meeting May 5, 2023.

"The Strength of a Township Ordinance to Protect the Lake: the story of how some residents are defending it, and others are gutting it"

Speakers:
LuAnne Kozma, Protect Lake Charlevoix Shoreland
and fellow Lake Charlevoix Riparians

with

"Case studies and analyses of the impacts of poor land use on water quality, submersed aquatic vegetation communities, and lake fisheries"

Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Jermalowicz-Jones, CLP,
MLSA Board Member and Restorative Lake Sciences

Registration below:

https://mymlsa.org/mlsa-events/annual-conference-2023/

02/03/2023

Todays hearing in Charlevoix Circuit Court (for Feb 3) on the Laws' lawsuit has been rescheduled to March 3, at 2:15 pm.

01/05/2023

Michigan Lakes and Streams Association noted the win at the ZBA for protecting Lake Charlevoix's shoreland from excavation. Unfortunately Scott and Debra Law have now sued the Township appealing that ZBA decision.

Riparians Prevail in ZBA Hearing |Published on: Oct 6, 2022|| By Paul J Sniadecki, Board Director Over a year ago, a corporate resort plan threatened Lake Charlevoix’s shoreland. The property owners planned to excavate the shoreland at their residential zoned property to construct an artificial bo...

10/26/2022

Lawsuit filed against Hayes Township to protect Lake Charlevoix Shoreland, challenging the ZBA's erroneous decision the Ordinary High Water Mark. The OHWM is the dividing line between uplands and bottomlands. And they got it wrong. This needs to be straightened out in the courts, for all of our lakes.

https://protectlakecharlevoixshoreland.org/litigation-against-the-township/