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Allegan council approves downtown social-district expansion, MDOT tree-permit steps and routine PO and lot-split items; Rossman Park bonding process moves ahead
Summary
Council expanded the Downtown Allegan Social District, authorized initial MDOT steps to plant street trees on M-89, approved several purchase orders (cemetery survey, airport PAPI baffles), approved accounts payable and two lot splits, and staff updated council on a $2.5 million Rossman Park grant and upcoming bonding timeline.
At its Sept. 22 meeting the Allegan City Council approved several items aimed at downtown improvements, airport safety and cemetery planning, while receiving updates on a Rossman Park grant and the notice-of-intent timeline for bonding.
Downtown social district: Council voted to expand the Downtown Allegan Social District boundary to include additional sidewalks that will better connect the Griswold Auditorium to downtown programming. Parker Johnson, who presented the proposal, emphasized the expansion covers sidewalks and will be marked with boundary stickers; he noted event-licensing rules apply at venues such as the Griswold. "You can technically, you can take a social district drink onto the boardwalk... but you can't take it any further than those 2 businesses," Johnson said, explaining how…
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