HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – The Holland City Council had some matters to attend to before taking a holiday break.
During last night’s business meeting, the panel formally adopted ordinance amendments that city Community and Neighborhood Services Director Mark Vanderploeg said would streamline future development in the vicinity of West Michigan Regional Airport. In addition, Council waived the city’s “no-peddling” ordinance along Eighth Street and VanRaalte Avenue during Tulip Time in order for the festival to sell bottled water and pre-packaged snacks to patrons sitting in portable bleachers set up in the 8th Street Marketplace, particularly during the three festival parades. Council also “approved in concept” a proposed Mother’s Day Market that Tulip Time wants to set up in Centennial Park on May 13th. That market would include a beer and wine tent along 10th Street, which would not violate the city’s current mandate of no alcoholic beverages in Centennial Park in the letter of the law, but goes against the spirit of that prohibition to some on Council.
Due to the holiday break, there will not be a biweekly work-study session next Wednesday; council members will hold its business meeting in its regular biweekly pattern on January 3rd.
