Dear readers,
Heads up! The last post from Pam Dorris is worth re-reading. No sooner did this post reach me than I also learned that the FINAL phase of Grand Marais Visioning/Comprehensive Plan/Ordinance Revision that is open to public input will be happening next week. Community Growth Institute, the consulting firm hired by the city to shepherd the process, will hold its last series of seminars from Thursday evening through Saturday morning.
Honk, if you love Grand Marais. Speak now or forever hold your peace. The future is in your hands, yours, voters and friends, for an infinitely precious and limited time of two and a half days.
Word has reached my listening ears that many who worked on the first comprehensive plan and protections for the harbor are just too bummed to come out again.
Take heart, friends. Evelyn Larsen, one of those dedicated "local" citizens who helped develop these far-sighted policies is running for mayor of Grand Marais. There are at least 100 signs supporting her candicacy and most of them joined by signs for her progressive neighbor Bill Lenz. Evelyn has not given up. Nor should you, you who want to preserve our city and our harbor for the next seven generations and beyond.
And let me address the issue of voters who pay taxes to the city of Grand Marais. These folks got surveys in the mail asking for their opinions about downtown development. The response rate was dismal given the highly charged election environment, with more candidate signs than completed surveys.
As for the rest of us: Cook County residents and homeowners who depend on Grand Marais for basic services and love its ambience, tourists who keep Grand Marais a thriving community; We don't get to fill out surveys. Our only input is via the CGI meetings open to everyone.
COME! Don't trash your last opportunity to speak out against big-money developers and greedy landowners.
Yours most truly,
True
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