SAUGATUCK
DUNES COASTAL ALLIANCE
Friday September 8, 2007
Million dollar homes are slated to break up what the DNR calls the largest
assemblage of freshwater dunes in the world. Local residents and tourists around
one Lake Michigan town say the homes would hurt the community forever.   
Michigan Now's Chris McCarus has this two part story.  Hear these stories at  
www.michigannow.org.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Keith Schneider,The sale last year of an expanse of globally rare,
undeveloped Lake Michigan beach and dunes at the mouth of the Kalamazoo
River signals an unmistakable and possibly momentous shift in the Saugatuck
and Douglas real estate markets, according to a new report by the Saugatuck
Dunes Coastal Alliance and the Michigan Land Use Institute....
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Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Keith Schneider, a New York Times reporter and founder of the Michigan
Land Use Institute, wrote
Fever of Development, Frontier of Recovery: Securing
the Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Region
.   As an investigative reporter, Mr.
Schneider digs into development issues in the Saugatuck Dunes coastal region.
View PDF report
Monday, May 21, 2007
Dunes’ New Owner Edges Toward Construction Plan
The lawyer for an Oklahoma energy magnate, who spent $39.3 million to buy two
miles of Lake Michigan shoreline, will describe this week where he and his client
..
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Monday, April 09, 2007
Saugatuck Citizens Form Alliance to Respond to New Development
The Michigan Land Use Institute, in collaboration with a group of residents and
public interest ...
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Friday, March 16, 2007
The Denison  Ever since receding glaciers formed Lake Michigan, the
prevailing west winds have been creating sand dunes along the coastline of
Michigan ...
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Thursday, March 15, 2007
Tangible and Intangible Values Lakeshore living is a gift. It deserves an
understanding of its tangible and intangible value. ...
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Friday, March 09, 2007
The Economy is the Geography Like many communities across America,
the Saugatuck coastal areas are indeed under siege. Companies ...
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