In November 2024, Circuit Court Judge Jon Hulsing dismissed our case. Essentially, the judge found that Park Township amending the ordinance in March of 2024 changed things.
Because the township had not issued any citations under that new zoning ordinance, the judge found that PTN had not exhausted our administrative remedies, and that he did not have jurisdiction on the remaining issues. You can read the court’s opinion here.
Because of that, the next step for PTN is to go before Park Township’s Zoning Board of Appeals as a group. We filed our application with the township in December 2024, and are awaiting a date for our hearing with the ZBA.
Our application is NOT related to whether or not short-term rentals would be made legal in Park Township, and it is NOT a variance request.
New short-term rentals are not allowed in Park Township, and PTN is not challenging that.
Instead, our application asks for an interpretation of the 1974 Zoning Ordinance as it stood in the past: both prior to the recent amendments related to short-term rentals, and as it stood from 1963 until 1974.