Notice of Meeting Cancelation

Please take notice that the Village Council has canceled the following meeting: Tuesday, June 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM

The next regularly scheduled Village Council Meeting is scheduled to take place on July 8, 2025.

Notice of Public Hearing on Increasing Property Taxes

The Village Council of the Village of Lawton will hold a Public Hearing and subsequently decide on a proposed increase of .1558 mills in the operating tax millage rate to be levied on property in 2025. The hearing will be held at the Village Council Meeting on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 7:00 pm. 

If adopted, the proposed additional millage will increase operating revenues from ad valorem property taxes 0.93% over such revenues generated by levies permitted without holding a hearing. If the proposed additional millage rate is not approved, the operating revenue will increase by 2.19% over the preceding year’s operating revenue. The taxing unit publishing this notice, and identified below, has complete authority to establish the number of mills to be levied from withing its authorized millage rate. 

The taxing unit publishing this notice, and identified below, has complete authority to establish the number of mills to be levied from within its authorized millage rate. 

Notice of Public Hearing Wireless Towers and Solar

PLEASE TAKE NOTE, The Lawton Planning Commission will hold a Public Hearing on June 3rd, 2025 at 7:00 pm to receive comments on a proposed amendment to the current Zoning Ordinance in order to regulate wireless communications facilities as well as wind and solar energy within the Village limits. 

Those who are unable to attend are encouraged to submit written comments to the Village Manager at clerk@lawtonmi.org or the below-mentioned address. Written comments must be received before 4:00 pm May 30th, 2025. The Village will provide necessary, reasonable auxiliary aids and services to individuals with disabilities at the meeting upon four (4) business days’ notice to the Village Clerk. Individuals with disabilities requiring auxiliary aids or services should contact the Village Clerk at the address or telephone number listed below. 

This notice is posted in compliance with the Open Meetings Act, Public Act 267 of 1976, as amended (MCL 41.72a (2)(3)) and the Americans with Disabilities Act. A copy of this notice is on file at Lawton Village Hall, located at 125 S. Main Street, PO Box 367, Lawton MI 49065, phone: 269.624.6407 as well as on our website at www.lawtonmi.org 

Brittany Rathbun, Village Clerk 

Notice of Public Hearing Zoning Short-term Rental

PLEASE TAKE NOTE, The Lawton Planning Commission will hold a Public Hearing on June 3rd, 2025 at 7:00 pm to receive comments on a proposed amendment to the current Zoning Ordinance in order to add short-term rental use and regulations, amend permitted uses in commercial Industrial Zone districts, as well as adding section 1.10 violations to ordinance, and add section 1.11 to allow administration of the Rental Inspection ordinance. 

Those who are unable to attend are encouraged to submit written comments to the Village Manager at clerk@lawtonmi.org or the below-mentioned address. Written comments must be received before 4:00 pm May 30th, 2025. The Village will provide necessary, reasonable auxiliary aids and services to individuals with disabilities at the meeting upon four (4) business days’ notice to the Village Clerk. Individuals with disabilities requiring auxiliary aids or services should contact the Village Clerk at the address or telephone number listed below. 

This notice is posted in compliance with the Open Meetings Act, Public Act 267 of 1976, as amended (MCL 41.72a (2)(3)) and the Americans with Disabilities Act. A copy of this notice is on file at Lawton Village Hall, located at 125 S. Main Street, PO Box 367, Lawton MI 49065, phone: 269.624.6407 as well as on our website at www.lawtonmi.org 

Brittany Rathbun, Village Clerk 

Notice of Planning Commission Meeting Cancellation

NOTICE OF MEETING CANCELLATION 

Please take notice that the Planning Commission has canceled the following meeting: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM 

The next regularly scheduled Village Council Meeting is scheduled to take place on May 6, 2025.