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November 22, 2019
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Watch the meeting - only the parts you need to watch - with our LiveAgendas 11/20/2019 Northfield Township Planning Commission meeting LiveAgenda Meeting Docs: 11/20/2019 Northfield Township Planning Commission meeting Agenda 11/20/2019 Northfield Township…
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November 19, 2019
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Board OKs Pot Ordinance75 Barker Road Fire Hall Value Jumps 27%Fed-Up Treasurer Calls for Firing Manager & PlannerResidents Pack MeetingCalling All Volunteers Nov. 12, 2019 Township Board Meeting ReportBy David Gordon Downtown Pot Shops Permitted The Board of…
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November 19, 2019
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Here is the LiveAgenda, greatly expanded. Click any of the links to watch the meeting beginning at the linked speaker's speaking. Toward the end the link lands about ten seconds early, an artifact of the difference between the way Adobe Premiere handles video…
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November 12, 2019
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If you spoke at one of the series of Planning Commission and Board of Trustees meetings where the newly legal Marijuana was the focus, you will soon find links to your moment on the political stage here. I begin with the March 20 Planning Commission premier…
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November 06, 2019
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The 2018 vote was clear. Two thirds of Michigan Voters were done with criminalized Marijuana, done with mass imprisonment, done with institutional hypocrisy, done with the Drug Wars, done with over-militarized police, done with predatory asset forfeiture. How…
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November 03, 2019
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These are the raw elements of the 10/22 LiveAgenda. Clicking a link takes you directly to video of the meeting at the point where an agenda item, utterance, or comment transpired. Youtube makes this possible. But what Youtube giveth, it can take away. I…
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October 28, 2019
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Oct. 22, 2019 Board of Trustees meetingBy David Gordon Highlights: 1 – MASTER PLAN - A new Master Plan was approved by a slim 4/3 vote. Historically, the plan receives a unanimous vote but this Board, led by Supervisor Marlene Chockley, is divided on nearly…
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October 23, 2019
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Read that again. Quickly. Read it aloud. Feel the footfall of syllables. Breathe. Bite each consonant. Speak surely, confidently. You know what it means. They know what it means. Everybody knows what it means. Squish-puff is what happens when revenue-neutral…
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October 22, 2019
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The smart way to watch these meetings is with our LiveAgenda. A LiveAgenda is a copy of the meeting minutes with agenda items and comments turned into links to the meeting video. Click and watch only what you want. Jump directly to the Agenda items you want…
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October 14, 2019
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This FAQ was written and provided by Northfield Township Green Growth, a coalition of every Downtown Whitmore Lake business. Download the pdf here: 2019 Anti Marijuana Business Ballot Proposal Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Frequently Asked Questions What…
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October 08, 2019
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Movie Posters: Propaganda films made for Harry J. Anslinger's campaign of terror against American Citizens.
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October 06, 2019
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Unethical Behavior Charges Leveled Master Plan Review Postponed Again Manager Recommends Limiting Public Input by David Gordon, Sept. 24, 2019 The Board of Trustees last night spent nearly four hours struggling with the marijuana question – whether or not it…
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June 19, 2019
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Crowds at October 17th, 2018 Master Plan Open House Visioning Session & defacto Community Survey In brief, at this 6/19/2019 meetup of the Northfield Township Planning Commission: Five of the seven planning commissioners were present. Township Board…
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May 27, 2019
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$8+ Million to Slam Sewer Customers - Rates Will Jump 42% Trustee Dockett to Clerk Manley: “You Lied to Me.” By David Gordon By the narrowest of margins, the Board of Trustees voted 4-to-3 to spend $200,000 on an engineering study for an unneeded $5 million…
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May 06, 2019
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Last update: 7/12/2019 Resources: This is a brief list of news articles and information about legal marijuana as a business and legal right. I found these while googling around to learn about issues at the periphery of Northfield Township's confused response…
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May 03, 2019
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Last Update: 7/9/2019 The back story is not that the "dirty hippies" so loathed by one Northfield Township Planning Commissioner will ruin local neighborhoods. Obviously - temporarily - they'll mint money, which is more than anyone else around here does. The…
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April 27, 2019
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Last Update 6/28/2019 MLive: Clinton Township Republican's $15 Million investment to redevelop Gibraltar Trade Center as a Marijuana-Grow Op, Amy Biolchini, 6/22/2019 Thanks to a $15 Million personal investment by the Chairman of the McLaren Macomb hospital’s…
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April 26, 2019
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Last update: 7/11/2019 This is a brief collection of links to news articles and information about Michigan's Court Mandated redistricting. Development is driving rapid changes in Michigan House districts' voting patterns - Graphic: MLive NPR/Fresh Air:…
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April 25, 2019
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What was the April 23rd Board meeting? A Pot Party. They couldn't stop talking about it and hung around, like unwanted guests, until 12:15 in the morning. In a nutshell, this is how it ended up: As a result of Board votes modifying the Planning Commission's…
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April 23, 2019
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On tonight's hotplate, redeciding Proposition 18-1 Background: Whitmore Lake residents equalled Ann Arbor residents in approving this proposition. Who was less likely to vote for it? Rural residents. Why, I've no idea. It's more than a little ironic that the…
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April 18, 2019
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No! https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/marijuana-legalization-violent-crime/ The Shafer Commission found in 1972 that cannabis was as safe as alcohol, and recommended ending prohibition in favor of a public health approach. But by then the Federal Bureau of…
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April 09, 2019
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This meeting's 298 page packet contained 37 individual documents and spreadsheets. To ease your viewing pleasure, I've extracted each one and made them available below. Meeting Docs: 4/9/2019 Northfield Township Board of Trustees meeting Agenda 4/9/2019 -…
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March 31, 2019
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Tax Increase of $160/yr Would Whallop Existing Customers Board of Trustees Divided – Beliger is Swing Vote Cliff Notes from 3/26/19 Board of Trustees Meeting by David Gordon A clear majority of residents voiced opposition to the sewer plant expansion. A…
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March 26, 2019
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Going into tonight's discussion of the 8 or $9 million dollar sewer system decision, the powers that sneak provided only a 17 page packet. 2019-03-26-Northfield-Township-Board-of-Trustees-meeting-Agenda…
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March 26, 2019
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I searched the past two years of meeting minutes for [Tetra-Tech, sewer] Any text is copy/pasted from the minutes. 2019-01-08 regular BOT meeting minutes final Watch Livestreamed 1-8 Meeting Video Agenda Item 7. Review and Discuss Documents from the December…
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March 25, 2019
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[Page Last Updated 4/20/2019] Comic Relief: The Whitechapel Fatberg, streamed live and yellowing, from the Museum of London NPR: 'Concreteberg' The Weight Of A Blue Whale Plagues London's Sewers, Merrit Kennedy, 4/18/2019 Our previous collection of Northfield…
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March 21, 2019
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by David Gordon 3/18/19 Northfield Neighbors recently alerted sewer customers to the Board of Trustee’s $5M plan for a holding tank at the Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). This plant expansion could raise sewer rates $100/yr. and could also impact residents…
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March 10, 2019
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Planning Commission to Board of Trustees: “Why R U Selling the Historic Barker Road Fire Station?” “What Are We Planners, Chopped Liver?” Report on the March 6, 2019 Planning Commission Meeting by David Gordon March 8, 2019 The Planning Commission last night…
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February 20, 2019
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Documents in this meeting's packet, broken out 2019-02-20-Northfield-Township-Planning-Commission-meeting-Agenda.pdf Northfield-Township-Master-Plan-McKenna-Proposed-2019-02-15-draft.pdf Future-Land-Use-Master-Plan-Changes-McKenna-2019-02-15-draft.pdf…
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October 29, 2018
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The October 17th Master Plan Open House Report by David Gordon, November 2, 2018 Big Idea Poster iPhone photo by David Gordon At the Oct. 17th “Open House” hosted by the Planning Commission as part of its $25,000 Master Plan review process, the overwhelming…
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Oct 25, 2018
Master Plan “Open House” vote tally of the poster boards. By David Gordon 11/2/18 There…