Saugatuck -
Near Saugatuck, there has been a multi-year legal debate over a controversial residential / marina development proposal. The background info on this development is
long and complicated, to put it mildly. In short, what's happening right now is an appeal has now been filed by a environmental group at the state level to try and overturn a ruling at the county level which deemed that the group has no legal standing to intervene in the development plans. The proposal calls for digging out a new boat basin near the mouth of the Kalamazoo River and surrounding it with a new residential neighborhood of single-family homes. The total property size amounts to 300 acres.
The owners and the developer, meanwhile, have every approval that they need except for one critical one from the Army Corp. of Engineers, which is being withheld until an archaeological survey can be completed.
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Legal challenge to controversial Lake Michigan dune development heads to state court
Amy Biolchin | MLive
March 7, 2018
SAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP, MI - An environmental group isn't giving up the fight against a marina and home development on a controversial piece of Lake Michigan dune property at the mouth of the Kalamazoo River. Feb. 27 the Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance filed an appeal with the Michigan State Court of Appeals over an Allegan County judge's February ruling that the environmental group didn't have legal standing to intervene...
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