How has COVID-19 altered how local elected officials govern their communities?
Carolyn Muyskens, The Holland Sentinel
Published
11:06 am UTC Apr. 10, 2021
With COVID-19 forcing local city council and township board meetings online, technology problems have become the norm.Zoom
HOLLAND The Laketown Township Board of Trustees was in the midst of a roll-call for a vote to approve the township s much-discussed budget for the next fiscal year including doubling the township s operating millage when they discovered a township trustee had disappeared from the Zoom meeting. Where s Jim Delaney? asked Supervisor Linda Howell. He took off, responded a member of the public watching on Zoom.
Letter: Is UDO already a done deal?
By James C. Schippers
I just finished reading many letters that were written to the Holland Planning Commission by various Holland city residents.
Each one was very well-written with facts and examples of other cities that went through similar changes. They also pointed out where the proposed changes will not fully provide what the Unified Development Ordinance indicates will be the result.
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HOLLAND In light of continued concern from residents of Holland s center-city neighborhoods, the Holland Planning Commission is scaling back proposed changes to zoning standards in the Traditional Neighborhood Residential district.
The changes are being proposed as part of a much larger project to revamp and combine the city s zoning and development ordinance into a unified development ordinance, or UDO.
In the Traditional Neighborhood Residential zone district, labeled R-TRN in Holland s current zoning map, lot size requirements for multifamily housing are proposed to shrink, making more properties eligible to build two-, three- and four-unit homes in the district.
The original proposal in the most recent draft of the UDO was to decrease the per-unit square footage requirement from 4,800 square feet to 3,250 square feet.