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St. James Township budgets for docks, tourism, and commercial redevelopment, 1985

Also St. James Township March 30 April 3 and April 18 1985 meetings

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Locator map: Township of Saint James highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
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TypeEvent
Dates1985-03-30 – 1985-04-18
WithinTownship of Saint James
ErasModern era
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Locator map: Township of Saint James highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at Township of Saint JamesLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Event
Dates
1985-03-30 – 1985-04-18
Kind
Meeting
Where
Township of Saint James
Carried out by
Township of Saint James
Eras
Modern era
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Within
Township of Saint James

Summary

St. James Township’s March 30, April 3, and April 18, 1985 meetings addressed the Yacht Dock, seasonal tourism funding, land and tax policy, public signs, township cooperation, McDonough’s Market redevelopment, a special-use permit, and a fire-department grant application.

Evidence limits

These newspaper minutes and hearing notes preserve proposed and adopted local actions, but not the later permits, tax instruments, engineering results, construction, or grant outcomes.

Sources

  1. Reports March 30 budget and Yacht Dock engineering discussions; a $500 tourist-center contribution; land, airport-bond, tax, street-sign, community-building, and township-merger questions; April 3 lot-split, commercial-redevelopment, special-use, dock-fee, fire-grant, and airport-committee matters; and the April 18 public hearing approving a commercial-redevelopment area for McDonough's Market. It is a newspaper account of minutes and a hearing, not a title, permit, tax-abatement certificate, engineering study, grant award, or construction record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1985-05_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held nineteen-page May issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the St. James Township minutes.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1985-05_Beaver-Beacon

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “St. James Township budgets for docks, tourism, and commercial redevelopment, 1985”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-st-james-township-march-30-april-18-1985-meetings/, accessed [date], citing St. James Township annual, special, regular, and public-hearing minutes, Beaver Beacon, May 1985. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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