CANCELLED - PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING 8/27/25
The scheduled Planning Commission (PC) meeting scheduled for 8/27/25 has been cancelled – AGAIN – Previously scheduled meetings back in November 2024 and July 2025 were also cancelled after scheduling, advertising, and waiting for the required project information from the developer that never came! WHY?
If you’ve followed our posts and updates, you have an idea of just how much required information is missing - now – what were they thinking back in November? Dozens and dozens of errors, omissions and wrong names were outlined by their own engineering group (Gateway) on the project. Such a complicated, complex, and risky project that has major safety issues associated with a narrow township-owned road and bridge as the only way in or out. A complete disregard to public safety, emergency response issues, school bus turnaround and safety issues that they are aware of and trying to hide and talk their way out of. (We’ll share an interesting internal developer email thread soon) It’s eye opening! And should make you ANGRY!
Our group was at township offices today, inspecting the information in the files for updated, corrected, and missing information and it was not there. And this for a major development that would likely bring generational issues for our township to worry about, fix, and pay for!! Why would we sign up for this? The critical environmental permit is the perfect example – it was misrepresented and delayed and was never yet applied for and it alone will likely take well over a year before the developers can get it, if they even can. Why is this project being shoved down out throat? Why??
What was reconfirmed today, this is not a township personnel problem or failure, they are frustrated by being told to schedule these meetings before information is received “because that’s the way it’s always been done!” This is NOT a township staff failure; this is a systemic problem that has existed for many years according to the folks that have been here to witness it for decades. This is a problem that starts at the top and is forced down. It’s like an ugly tradition and way of doing business that gets passed from supervisor to supervisor. It’s time to break this ugly, unprofessional process and try something new. We need a change at the top and it needs to happen now. Elections have consequences and are now critically important. So many of you have voiced your concern about this problem and we need to make changes now.
We will stay on top of this. Please stay tuned. These people have operated in the dark, behind closed doors for too long. We now have a much easier time spreading the word and shining the light where we need to!
Thank You!
Timothy Foster and Jason Sobek