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West Michigan News Company Saugatuck Township Board of Trustees Hears Comments on Denison Property |
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Wednesday night at the Saugatuck High School the Township Board of Trustees met to take comments from concerned citizens. One after another got up there to ask this Board not to change the zoning from R4, which would mean that Mr. McClendon would be limited to 80 homes or less on the north mouth of the Kalamazoo River. I'm not sure quite how Mr. McClendon got from not being able to build anything on Critical Dunes to now want zoning that would allow him to build 240 homes on this land that is spiritual in nature. It was obvious watching the Township attorney grimmace as other attorney's were telling him that he had no legal problem with just rejecting Mr. McClendon's threat of a legal suit to have his taxes reduced. When it was his turn at the end to talk, he made it quite clear that this legal suit did not threaten the township, but that he would like the township to enter into an agreement with Mr. McClendon. This did not sit well with the citizens, and toward the end of his remarks he made a general threat. Everybody just got very excited by having him threaten them. If he thought it was going to get that group to agree with him, he was sadly mistaken. The Board then discussed the agreement and had a vote. Four members voted to table the vote until January, while Bill Wester, the township supervisor voted to do the deal that night. At that point everybody in the room knew that McClendon's money bought more than the Denison property. It was amazing how many people were talking about a Recall Election to remove Bill Wester from the township board.
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