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Beaver Island Master Plan public-comment compilation, 2022 process

Also 2023 Beaver Island Master Plan Public Comments · MasterPlan_Public Comm_2023

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TypeDataset
Dates2022-08-17 – 2022-09-06
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
ErasModern era
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2022-08-17 – 2022-09-06
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Summary

This held 45-page compilation preserves the public submissions gathered for the 2022 portion of the planning process later published with the 2023 Beaver Island Master Plan. Its cover reports 701 comments: 264 associated with a 65-participant open house and approximately 437 associated with a 96-participant online survey.

Evidence and limits

The compilation groups individual comments under planning topics such as cultural and natural resources, housing, transportation, land use, and economic development. It documents that these views were submitted and preserved in the planning record. Counts of comments or participants do not measure endorsement, identify a statistically representative public, establish consensus, or prove that any specific proposal was adopted, funded, enacted, or implemented.

The separate Master Plan dates the open house to 17 August 2022 and its online survey period to 17 August-6 September 2022. The held compilation’s filename and PDF title use “2023” because it was preserved with the later plan record; this article retains both contexts rather than converting that publication label into a different public-input date.

See also

Sources

  1. Planning-process notice records the consultant RFP and March 15 proposal deadline. It is process evidence, not an adoption instrument.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 17 · t017025
  2. Press-release text identifies the April 18 kickoff, the joint Peaine/St. James Planning Commission process with LIAA, the five-year review of the 2017 plan, and the intended sequence of meetings, focus groups, comment period, and township approvals. It is a public-process announcement; the held plan and official records remain stronger evidence for later milestones.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 17 · t017108
  3. Township/planning-process notices describe the August 17 open house, survey, and topic stations covering cultural and natural resources, affordable housing, healthcare, broadband, roads, trails, marina, transportation, energy, coastal resilience, and land use. The same-day notice supplies the survey deadline. These posts document public engagement, not consensus or adoption.
    forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 17 · t017370
  4. Held official public PDF, 45 pages. Its cover reports 701 comments: 264 from a 65-participant open house and approximately 437 from a 96-participant online survey. The document groups individual public submissions by planning topic; it is not an adoption instrument, a representative-opinion study, a vote tally, or evidence that any suggestion became policy.
    planning · beaver_island_master_plan · documents · 2023-beaver-island-master-plan-public-comments-c14f1eb3
  5. Described in this archive: Beaver Island Master Plan, 2023.
    The plan dates the in-person open house to 17 August 2022 and the online Action Plan survey to 17 August-6 September 2022, and reports 161 respondents across its sections. It describes process input, not a statistically representative sample or an enacted action.
    planning · beaver_island_master_plan · documents · 2023-beaver-island-master-plan-2eb885fe

Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Master Plan public-comment compilation, 2022 process”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/beaver-island-master-plan-public-comments-2022/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “Master Plan Update - RFP for Planning Consultant,” February 17, 2022. (and 4 further sources listed on the page).

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