To the editor:
Or should we say in Leelanau County? Why is our county administrator so preoccupied with “solving” housing—especially while sitting on the board of Peninsula Housing? Yes, everyone knows housing costs are high. But what makes commissioners or the administrator think they can fix a national problem? None of them has development experience. Yet, judging from their actions and the Enterprise’s coverage, you’d think the administrator was more than just an attorney.
Why? Could it have anything to do with the $800,000 given to Suttons Bay School to keep it out of bankruptcy, followed by talks between the school, the Land Bank, and Peninsula Housing? Could it be about controlling properties through the Land Bank, which keeps them off the tax rolls? Or about using PILOT tax breaks that give developers incentives and better margins to build smaller units—at the taxpayers’ expense?
