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Silver Creek supervisors suspend enforcement of 2015 driveway ordinance while rewriting it
Summary
Vice Chairman Mike Helman and the board voted unanimously to stop enforcing Ordinance 2015-08-18 and remove it from the township website until it is rewritten; the board will continue using the existing driveway permit with no fees during the rewrite.
Vice Chairman Mike Helman moved that the Silver Creek Township Board suspend enforcement of Ordinance 2015-08-18 and remove the ordinance text from the township website until the board can rewrite it. Supervisor Brandon Geyen seconded the motion, and the board carried it 4-0.
The board said it will continue to accept and use the township’s existing driveway permit with no fees while the ordinance is revised. The minutes note the action was taken to resolve a conflict between the driveway permit and Ordinance 2015-08-18; the transcript does not provide further details of the legal conflict or the timeline for rewriting the ordinance.
The action was framed as an interim operational step: remove the older ordinance from public posting to avoid confusion and rely on the permit process until a corrected ordinance is drafted and approved. The motion was made during the board’s consideration of old business and carried unanimously.
Next steps recorded in the minutes: the ordinance will be revised (timing and responsible parties not specified in the minutes). No individual vote roll-call was recorded in the minutes; the journal entry records the outcome as “Carried 4-0.”
