Silver Bay Planning and Zoning Commission Posts March 4 Public Hearing Notice

A public hearing for the City of Silver Bay’s Planning & Zoning Commission was posted by the North Shore Journal on Feb. 20, 2026, announcing a hearing scheduled for Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at 3:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers. The notice as published states the time and location but the text available to this reporter was truncated and does not include the hearing subject.

A fragment of the North Shore Journal posting reads, “The City of Silver Bay Planning and Zoning Commission will hold the following Public Hearing on Wednesday, March 4, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. in the” and cuts off at that point, leaving the advertised agenda items unspecified. The original published notice excerpt available to this outlet likewise says, “The City of Silver Bay’s Planning & Zoning Commission published a public hearing notice, posted by the North Shore Journal on Feb. 20, 2026, announcing a hearing scheduled for Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at 3:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers.”

City meeting materials hosted on the municipality’s meetings portal include draft planning code language that references “Title 9 Chapter 2 and Chapter 13 proposed amendments Amendments 3 ordinance (described above).” That packet material carries a creation timestamp of 2025-02-07 13:05:29 [EST] and is labeled in metadata as “44 Item # 2. Created: 2025-02-07 13:05:29 [EST] (Supp. No. 1) Page 9 of 14.” The same packet contains explicit attachments described as “Attachments A: Discussion Draft of Commercial A Zoning prepared in strikethrough and underline to facilitate discussion.”

The portal excerpts also set out standard procedures the commission follows: “As a discussion item only, no action will be taken on the draft code changes at this meeting. Rather, Planning and Zoning Commission will discuss the drafts, and suggest where changes could be made. At a future date, after the Planning and Zoning Commission has had time to sufficiently review the drafts, a public hearing will be scheduled for formal action.” Separate language in the packet notes that the Arts, Culture, and Historic Preservation Plan and its appendices adopted by City Council in 2018 “shall satisfy the requirement of an investigation” for creating a downtown historic district, and that “Applications for Certificates of Appropriateness shall be filed in accordance with the provisions of section 9-9-2: Permit Application Filing, Fees, and Initial Processing.”

Neither the North Shore Journal fragment nor the meeting-packet excerpts available to this reporter explicitly link the March 4 public hearing notice to the Title 9/Chapter 13 drafts, the Commercial A zoning discussion draft, or historic-district procedures. The city’s Silverbay calendar shows other meetings on different dates - for example, a separate listing reads “Wednesday, August 16, 3:30 p.m. Public Hearing – Minutes /Special Meeting – Agenda / Minutes ... Public Utilities Commission · Public Works Commission · Safety” - underscoring that multiple commission calendars are maintained.

The published notice posted Feb. 20 establishes the date, time, and City Council Chambers location for the March 4 event but stops short of identifying the agenda items or public-comment procedures. Until the City of Silver Bay releases the full March 4 agenda or the North Shore Journal clipping that contains the complete notice text, it remains unclear whether the hearing will address zoning-code amendments, Certificates of Appropriateness, a variance, or other Planning & Zoning business.