[CPEO-BIF] Douglas, Michigan golf course development approved

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Douglas OKs 125-condo / golf course plan

By Scott Sullivan
Saugatuck Commercial Record (MI)
February 4, 2009

Douglas City Council Monday granted Paul Wicks site plan approval to 
convert his 18-hole West Shore Golf Course into a 125-condominium, 
nine-hole golf-residential complex.

Members, assured by legal and planning counsels that Wicks’ proposal met 
city standards, voted 5-2 to OK the work.

Wicks has sought since 2006, when the housing market was quite 
different, to build on his 92 acres at 14 Ferry St., north of Center 
Street. Units in what will be called West Shore Cottages will sell for 
an average $450,000, he said then.

The golf course, built in 1916 and one of the oldest in the state, sits 
atop groundwater contaminated with trichloroethylene (TCE), migrated 
there from the former Case manufacturing company off site.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.allegannews.com/articles/2009/02/05/cr_news/1.txt

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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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