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St. James Township reviews dock permits, airport expansion, and forest planning, 1986

Also November 5 1986 St. James Township meeting

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TypeEvent
Date1986-11-05
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
1986-11-05
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Meeting
Where
Beaver Island
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Township of Saint James
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Modern era
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Beaver Island

Summary

The November 5, 1986 St. James Township minutes cover harbor permits and bottomlands, a proposed Dock B, DNR forest planning, airport expansion, deputy housing, and grant applications.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper minutes report, not a permit, deed, engineering plan, environmental inventory, grant award, or final airport decision.

Sources

  1. Reports zoning and dock-permit matters, objections to a proposed Dock B near the Yacht Dock, bottomland deed and residential-use questions, a request for a DNR forest operations inventory, airport runway-expansion discussion, deputy housing, and Library and Historical Society grant applications. It is a newspaper minutes report, not a permit, deed, engineering plan, environmental inventory, grant award, or final airport decision. 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 · 1986-12_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held twenty-nine-page December issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the November 5 minutes.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1986-12_Beaver-Beacon

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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “St. James Township reviews dock permits, airport expansion, and forest planning, 1986”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-st-james-township-november-5-1986-meeting/, accessed [date], citing St. James Township Meeting, November 5, 1986, Beaver Beacon, December 1986. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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