To The Editor:

As President of the Village of Mackinaw City, I feel compelled to respond to my friend, Dick Moehl, whose Letter to the Editor was published in the August 21 issue of The St. Ignace News. Yet, this response is not to correct my friend's many errors of fact, which are many, and that Council can and will sort out; rather, it is to register dismay in Mr. Moehl's implication that Mackinaw's public servants are so mentally deficient that certain pending zoning consequences are, and I quote, "beyond the imagination and thought process of the Planning Commissioners and Council trustees."

Ouch!..."beyond the imagination and thought process."

But, fear not, an apology will follow from Mr. Moehl and others, and Council will move beyond this unproductive, emotionally charged insult and thoughtfully establish the appropriate zoning classification for the parcels in question. Incidentally, zoning stays with the property and is never carried away by the property owner.

Ronald E. Wallin, president

Village of Mackinaw City