- Dates
- 2024-08-13 – 2025-12-02
- Kind
- Legal proceeding
- Where
- Township of Saint James
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- governanceconstruction
- Within
- Township of Saint James
Summary
St. James Planning Commission records show the proposed R-2 zoning language that would lower the minimum first-floor area from 600 to 400 square feet, subject to stated frontage and overlay exceptions. The Commission’s December 2025 annual report says the language was adopted in April 2025.
Evidence and limits
The records are directly relevant to the 2023 Master Plan’s tiny-home-size action. They establish a documented Planning Commission sequence and its later report of adoption, but not the underlying Board ordinance, current zoning, constructed small homes, or an affordable-housing outcome.
Sources
- Records the joint 400-square-foot R-2 compromise proposal, listed exceptions, and stated next steps. It does not establish an enacted amendment, effective zoning, or housing result.research · island_governance · st-james-joint-board-planning-minutes-2024-08-20
- Reproduces the Planning Commission action on proposed R-2 floor-area text and later materials sent to the County. It does not provide a final township-board ordinance/resolution, effective date, current consolidated text or map, construction outcome, or affordable-housing result.research · island_governance · charlevoix-county-planning-conditional-rezoning-2025-02-06
- The Commission reports that the 400-square-foot R-2 floor-space language was adopted in April 2025, with critical-dune and waterfront exceptions. It is not the underlying Township Board ordinance/resolution and does not establish an effective date, current consolidated zoning, permits, construction, or affordability outcome.governance · township_meetings · st-james-planning · planning-commission-2025-annual-report-pdf-3b11ec433f
Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “St. James Planning Commission R-2 minimum-floor-area action, 2024”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/st-james-r2-minimum-floor-area-action-2024/, accessed [date], citing St. James Township Board and Planning Commission, special joint-meeting minutes, August 20, 2024. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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