By David Fleet
Editor
Groveland Twp. — On Monday night the township board of trustees OK’d by a vote of 4-1 a special use permit for the Renaissance Festival. Trustee Jim Christopher voted no. This year the Renaissance Festival is on weekends from Aug. 19-Oct.1.
“Festival officials would like to say thank you to Supervisor DePalma and the Groveland Township Board as well as the planning commission for their approval and support for the upcoming festival season,” said Chip Schultz, representing the Renaissance Festival. “It is our sincere intent to keep an open line of communication with both entity’s as well as the residents of both Groveland and Holly townships.”
Some of the changes for the 2023 Festival will include retaining Elite Parking Solutions, Inc. which will oversee internal traffic and creating a parking plan. Among the benefits will be a staffing of up to 40 people directing cars with key management present at all times; Charging $10 per car to park to help promote carpooling; limiting the number of complementary tickets for patrons on the last three weekends of the festival and providing drone coverage of the traffic in and out of the festival on the Dixie Highway.