Voters say no to gas station — Businessman might sue township
By Kristofer Karol
DAILY PRESS & ARGUS
Voters have struck down a rezoning request that would have paved the way for a gas station at a major intersection in Cohoctah Township, although the fight might be long from over.
Fifty-six percent of residents in Tuesday's referendum voted "no" on whether the township should rezone some land from rural residential to neighborhood services commercial off Oak Grove Road, just south of the Oak Grove United Methodist Church.
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The final tally was 371 no, 291, yes with 28% turnout. This case is now probably going to court.
2 comments:
Unrelated to this post, but Rep. Thad McCotter is making phone calls to his constituents saying he's opposed to the Dubai ports deal b/c of national security.
http://maizepage.blogspot.com/2006/03/mccotter-is-opposed-to-ports-deal.html
Last July, I touched on this subject a little bit - although I was dead wrong about the Detroit mayoral election.
http://republicanmichigander.blogspot.com/2005/07/kwame-detroit-and-urban-sprawl.html
If I had a vote, I would have voted yes, but only for one reason. This was going to court anyway if it failed - similar to Green Oak.
I'm in the minority of Livingston County residents as I'm a native. As a sportsman, I'm concerned at the amount of grown over what was once hunting land. I grew up in the Brighton area when it was country. Since I started high school in the 1990's, at least five subdivisions were enacted in a 2 mile radius near the Genoa/Hamburg border. This was all within the last 15 years. Most of that was after I left for college.
Now I know that growth can not be stopped, but the last thing I would like to see is us become Ann Arbor North. Let's not lose what made Livingston County a great area to live in the first place.
The best way to reduce sprawl however is for the cities and inner ring suburbs to clean up their act.
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