[CPEO-BIF] Proposed condos in Douglas, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Douglas revisits condo plan

By Scott Sullivan
Saugatuck Commercial Record (MI)
October 22, 2008

A long-discussed plan to build condominiums on one of Michigan's oldest 
golf courses will be subject of discussion at the next Douglas city 
council meeting Nov. 10 and possible approval after a public hearing one 
week later.

Paul Wicks, owner of West Shore Golf Course at 14 Ferry St., first 
sought site plan approval in summer 2006 to convert the 92-acre course, 
built in 1916, from 18 to nine holes, adding 142 single-family and 
multi-unit homes, tennis courts, pedestrian walkways, a clubhouse and 
pool among them.

...

Among those concerns were roads, parking, setbacks and that part of the 
land sits on a plume of groundwater contaminated with trichloroethylene 
(TCE), known to exist from the former Case manufacturing company.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.allegannews.com/articles/2008/10/23/cr_news/4.txt

For my February 2007 write-up on this site, see
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/DouglasTCE.pdf
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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