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Board of Zoning Appeals postpones hearings after no quorum
Summary
The Board of Zoning Appeals lacked a quorum at its November meeting and postponed all dimensional-variance hearings to Dec. 9, 2025, at 7:30 p.m., citing the Michigan Zoning Enabling Act requirement for at least four members to conduct business.
At its regularly scheduled November meeting, the Board of Zoning Appeals did not have a quorum and did not hear any agenda items, the meeting host said. The board postponed hearings on three dimensional-variance requests to Dec. 9, 2025, at 7:30 p.m.
The meeting host, identified in the transcript as "Unidentified Speaker" (meeting host), said a dimensional variance request requires "four affirmative votes" to pass and cited the Michigan Zoning Enabling Act, which the speaker said requires at least four regular members of the board to be present to conduct business. "Unfortunately, we do not have a quorum tonight to conduct business," the speaker said.
The host announced the new meeting date and time: "These matters will need to be postponed until the next regularly scheduled meeting, which will be on 12/09/2025 at 07:30PM." The speaker also apologized for the inconvenience and closed the meeting. No motions or formal votes were taken.
The Board of Zoning Appeals handles dimensional variances, use variances and requests to review a building official's interpretation, the host said at the opening of the meeting. Because a dimensional variance requires four affirmative votes to pass, and because the board did not meet the statutory quorum threshold, the hearings could not proceed.
The board is scheduled to reconvene on Dec. 9, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. for the postponed items; no additional details about the cases on the agenda were provided in the transcript.
