SAUGATUCK, MI (WHTC) – This may be a holiday week in Holland for the Tulip Time Festival, but elsewhere along the Lakeshore, it’s business as usual.
Such is the case in Saugatuck, where that city’s council meets for its biweekly business session this evening. Among the matters under consideration is updating the parking offenses and fines schedule that hasn’t been touched in more than two decades. Interim Police Chief Steve Kent says that the current tariffs are “not an effective deterrent to illegal parking.” If approved, the new penalties would be boosted to a near-uniform 25 dollars, with blocking fire hydrants at 50 bucks and parking in a handicap space now a 100-dollar transgression. An administrative fee for towing would be added to the fines. The Saugatuck City Council meeting is on the second floor of City Hall at 7 PM.
Also in that Lakeshore community, residents can be able to put general household “junk” items on the curb for city crews to pick up through this Thursday. An online link to information on what can’t be placed on the curb is in this story is here.
