We Love Harbor Springs https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html News What is an RFP? Request for Proposal ? Who What and Why City Council Sets Policy;City Manager Implements It – Time to Refocus on Harbor Springs Residents About Us Home Not Overlooking Community Input and Visualizing the Future – Bike Path How to Pick a Great City Manager for Harbor Springs? Guidelines by ICMA Upcoming 3.19.26 PC Meet: Heights in Harbor Springs – A Memo by Aligned Planning Consultant Lynee Wells – More on “Let’s Talk About It” Harbor Springs Doesn’t Have a Participation Problem. It Has a Participation Design Problem. Update: Interviews on You Tube! 4 Candidate Snapshots The effort we ask of the City Council is no less than the effort we are asking of ourselves. March 19, 2026 Planning Commission Meeting – Asking Architects , Builders & Citizens to Read Contact Us WLHS Town Hall Meeting Dates May 2 & 4, 2024 Planned Development – Discussion Points – Easy to understand. Heights in Harbor Springs – A Memo by Aligned Planning Consultant Lynee Wells – Lynee Wells Letters to HS, meeting transcript & History of ARC In response to the Harbor Light story on the hiring of the City Manager Proportional Planning and its’ importance for PDs. Catch Up HERE: Compilation of Lynee Wells, Aligned Planning advice on Zoning. UPDATED: Citizen Participation, One Community Voice Sparked it…Add Your Opinions about “Michigan Block Grants” Comments below Lamp Posts – Looking at Harbor Springs as a pallet: Harbor Light 10.8.25 Who gets to decide the future of Harbor Springs—and how? NEW from Lynee Wells about PD’s and WHY to fix our new zoning code. Recommendation for Reform 10.10.2025 Sixty Questions / Issues the Community raised/ Answered The Zoning is approved! 3 Real time Examples for PD’s, Height and Administrative Review Committee (ARC) The City Manager & City Council Relationships A 5 Day Deadline -What happens when big box stores come to Emmet County? What happens to our local businesses? A New Way to Participate in the Planning Commission Meetings -With Suggestions 1.5.25 Proposed Zoning Code Overview – by Harbor Springs City Planner John Iacoangeli Carter Williams City Council Letter regarding the Hire of a new City Manager November 20, 2025 Editorial on Zoning Dear Planning Commissioners, FOR MORE CLARITY ….Discussions about the zoning 12.13.25. From 2020-2025 Research on ARC & PD’s The final Planning Commission Meeting of 2025 – a win for the zoning , but not yet quite done Monday March 16th – Boards & Commissions – “Can we talk about it ?” Parking, and how a meeting in March didn’t reach the Realtors – yet Harbor Lights’ Report on November 20th, Planning Commission Meeting. What is Ordinance 50 ? Why does it Matter? Short Terms Rentals Recently Discussed ? Aligned Planning’s Lynee Wells Letter to the City Council 12.12.25 How the Harbor Springs Selection Process Works – How and Why ? Executive Search for Harbor Springs City Manager Understanding How Harbor Springs Governs Itself THE HARBOR SPRINGS BUDGET – FOR COMMUNITY REVIEW – A REVIEW BY A CITIZEN When can a Zoning Code Put Harbor Springs at Risk – Understandings by Examples or Comparisons Harbor Springs Doesn’t Need More Marketing — It Needs Priorities Update: Karin Offield on the Proposed Zoning Code – 11.17.25 PC Meet and the Suggested Changes by City Planner Lynee Wells, Aligned Planning Are we Investing in the Right Projects for our Residents and our Youth? – Shay Park for Example Planned Development – Definitions of Subjective and Objective terms – Helping us understand the PD language. What Does Beckett & Raeder say about the current Zoning Code Issues? Do they work for Harbor Springs?