[CPEO-MEF] Battle Creek (MI) buffer zone

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City to take up Harts Lake sale Tuesday

Nick Schirripa
Battle Creek Enquirer (MI)
August 20, 2007

An effort to save Harts Lake and a couple hundred surrounding acres from 
development will be in front of city commissioners on Tuesday.

In July, the Battle Creek Tax Increment Finance Authority supported 
moving forward with the sale of the 326 acres and preserving the lake 
and land as natural green space in the city.

The deal involves the Battle Creek Community Foundation facilitating the 
$2 million purchase of the property — with an option to buy another 118 
acres to the north for $1.2 million — which would be maintained by the 
Calhoun Conservation District as limited-use public space.

...

Tsuchiyama said preserving the green space is important for the 
community, and the buffer around the Michigan National Guard and Fort 
Custer Training Center may prevent the federal government from closing 
the base in the future.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070820/NEWS01/708200310

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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