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Resident urges return to "unlimited" garage sales; council asks staff to research ordinance

Walled Lake City Council · May 6, 2026
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Summary

Denise Hewitt told the council she wants Walled Lake to restore a longstanding policy allowing unlimited garage sales, citing a past ticket and disputes with a neighbor; the council said it would research other cities' rules and table a final decision.

A Walled Lake resident told the City Council she wants the city to return to its previous policy of allowing unlimited garage sales, saying recent limits have imposed needless burdens and resulted in enforcement actions.

"We're going back to the old rules of unlimited garage sales," Denise Hewitt said, reading a long account of a past citation, disputes with a neighbor and conversations she said she had with former city officials.…

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