2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:46:50 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] McDonald's a brownfield? - East Lansing, Michigan
 
Where is the Brownfield?

Russ Harding
Mackinac Center for Public Policy (MI)
February 12, 2009

Joe Maguire, president of Wolverine Development and a Mackinac Center board member, was dumbfounded when he received a letter last December from an environmental consulting firm requesting his consent for access to conduct an environmental assessment on property he owns in East Lansing. Maguire's well-maintained property features a McDonald's restaurant in the East Village area adjacent to the Michigan State University campus.

Maguire was not aware of any environmental pollution on his property and certainly had not requested an assessment. After some research, he quickly discovered this was not an administrative blunder but rather an attempt by East Lansing officials to reclassify his property a brownfield site.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.mackinac.org/article.aspx?ID=10276

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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
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