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ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS
TUESDAY AUGUST 27, 2024, at 6:00 P.M.PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Pennfield Charter Township Zoning Board of
Appeals will hold a public hearing at the Pennfield Charter Township Office at 20260
Capital Avenue, NE, Battle Creek, MI 49017, to consider the following variance re-
quest:
ZBA 2024-
Owner: Mindy and Denny Segar
Location: 420 Upson Lane, Battle Creek, MI 49017
Parcel ID: 18-380-022-
Request: Variance application to consider a covered/screened porch that extends
3 feet into the side yard setback. The proposed porch will be 12 from the side lot
line, where 15 feet is required. Zoning Ordinance Section 2.19.3 and Section 3.10.
Information associated with the scheduled Public Hearing is available for public
review at the Pennfield Charter Township Office, 20260 Capital Avenue, NE, Battle
Creek, Michigan 49017, during normal business hours. Comments will be heard
from the public at the hearing, or you can submit comments in writing to the: Pen-
nfield Township Zoning Board of Appeals, 20260 Capital Avenue, NE, Battle
Creek, Michigan 49017. ATTN: Segar Variance Request. All written comments
will be entered into the public record and must be received by 5:00 pm on Monday,
August 26, 2024.
Pennfield Charter Township will furnish reasonable auxiliary aids and services to
individuals with disabilities upon one week’s notice. Individuals with disabilities re-
quiring auxiliary aids or services should contact Pennfield Charter Township Clerk
Kathy Case at 269-968-8549 or via email at [email protected].Kathy Case
Pennfield Charter Township Clerk120 beds.”
Cornish also wants to dispel a gen-
eral perception in the community that
there is no room at the facility for
new admissions.
“We often hear from people whoCARE
Continued from Page 13Cosmetologist and CNA Cristine Carroll gives hair styling services to Mildred
Ochiltree in the CCMCF salon. (Shopper News photo by Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)
Resident Carol Recher leads other residents in a painting party activity. (Shopper
News photo by Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)are looking to have placement that
oh, there’s always a waiting list, or
I’ll never get in there or the hospital
case manager said they’re always
full,” said Cornish. “And we’re try-
ing to beat that misconception. And,
you know, we do have a waitlist, but
most of those people are people whoaren’t 100-percent ready, or we don’t
have an appropriate placement for
them. And we are constantly look-
ing at referrals and looking for new
admissions.”
Not only is the staff currently car-
ing for between 100 and 105 resi-
dents, they are also offering more
short term rehabilitation care, said
Cornish.
“We’ve been focusing a lot more
than ever the last four plus years, and
just in the last six months, on short
term rehab again,” said Cornish. “So
for a while when the pandemic shut
everything down, it really shut down
a lot of rehab referrals. There was a
period that we didn’t do any admis-
sions unless it was our residents who
went to the hospital and came back.”
Cornish said the CCMCF has
always maintained a robust infection
control program.
“And, if we had a resident with
the flu, we’ve always done contact
tracing to see, ‘do we think it came
from family?’ Or, a visitor? Have
staff been sick? We really try to
pinpoint that information and that
is what a lot of the infection control
guidelines during COVID focused
on so COVID is the new flu for us
and how we’re handling it. It just has
more restrictions on how long people
have to quarantine and that’s prob-
ably the biggest difference.”
The CCMCF staff now have expe-rience should a spike in cases occur
or should another pandemic come
along.
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