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Elmwood substation plan brings threat
Neighbors of a proposed electrical substation are threatening the Elmwood Township trustee who plans to sell 10 acres to Wolverine Power Cooperative adjacent to a large windmill north of M-72. ...In an anonymous letter addressed "Dear Mr. and Mrs. Lautner," the Lautners were told by "concerned neighbors" that "our goal is to hold you personally and financially responsible for our hardship and we will pursue this relentlessly. We will expose this to the media, newspapers, television, etc." A story on the substation appeared in the Wednesday edition of the Traverse City Record-Eagle.
The "neighbors" wrote that the substation would lower adjoining property values. "This scar is the legacy Terry and Kathy Lautner will leave their family," it continued.
Concerns were also raised during public comment at the monthly meeting.
November 18, 2007
by Alan Campbell
in Leelanau Enterprise
Neighbors of a proposed electrical substation are threatening the Elmwood Township trustee who plans to sell 10 acres to Wolverine Power Cooperative adjacent to a large windmill north of M-72.
But trustee Terry Lautner said he has nothing to hide, and abstained Tuesday night from voting on a township effort to slow down construction of the substation while a township attorney reviews - for the second time - the Elmwood Zoning Ordinance to assure compliance.
The ordinance allows "essential services" in all zoning districts, and zoning administrator Donald Witkowski in August issued an opinion that would allow the substation as a... [continue via Web link]
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