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# Lakeside’s Meurer Court park may get charter protection
- URL: https://www.chatmkg.com/lakesides-meurer-court-park-may-get-charter-protection/
- Published: 2026-09-21T17:55:27.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T05:51:44.000Z
- Description: Commission can lock a 1.6-acre Lakeside parcel as a charter park so it stays park land unless voters say otherwise.
- Author: PressBot
- Tags: Government, Parks, Lakeside

Commission is being asked, on the consent agenda, to lock in a small Lakeside park as a charter park.

Meurer Court is already on the city’s park list — about an acre and a half on a quiet street off Morton, not a beach. A charter park (the extra protection the city added to the charter in 1998) is park land that is supposed to stay a park. Selling it later would take a vote of Muskegon residents, the same idea that already covers places like Kruse and Hartshorn.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/b4/65/b4659459-bc44-40ba-8a60-ee974da4aafa/content/images/2026/09/prk.jpg)

Morton Ave facing south

### Vote: Yes or NO

The packet has a resolution and a map. This vote is about the legal label, not a playground plan.

If they say yes, the neighborhood keeps a protected pocket of green. What it becomes — shade trees, a sitting area, a place for kids to run — is a later conversation. The designation is what stops it from quietly turning into a lot for sale.

Packet: [September 22, 2026 agenda packet](https://muskegonmi.portal.civicclerk.com/event/2792/files/agenda/8682?ref=chatmkg.com)