Resolution For Hotel Tax Amendment Gets Support Of Four City Commission Candidates
By Craig Manning | Oct. 9, 2025
Could tourism be a key factor in this fall’s local elections? Brad Lystra and Andrea Stalf hope so.
Lystra and Stalf are the local residents pushing for a new form of “visitor lodging tax” in northern Michigan – one that would see more revenues from tourism flow into the community to pay for things like infrastructure, public safety, and environmental protection. Now the pair have penned a resolution calling for “legislative action” to make such a lodging tax possible – and garnered support from four of the seven candidates seeking seats on the Traverse City commission.
Beyond property and sales taxes, local lodging properties with at least 10 units …
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