The Coastal Alliance Remains Determined to Stop the Marina.
Here’s Where Things Stand.
• We expect Saugatuck Township’s Zoning Board of Appeals to ask the Allegan County Circuit Court for clarification on the court order to consider new evidence to determine whether the Coastal Alliance has standing to challenge the 2017 marina permit.
• Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) is still in the process of reviewing the application for permits to build the marina. We expect their decision within the next month or two.
• USACE is in the seventh year of its review, a process that typically takes three months.
Listen to Journalist Tamara Dean’s 29-minute Podcast
The podcast, released last week by Pacifica Radio, details our communities’ efforts to protect the Saugatuck Dunes at the Kalamazoo River Mouth. The podcast includes powerful perspectives from regional tribal communities, as well as Coastal Alliance leaders.
OUR MISSION
The Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance is a coalition of individuals and organizations working cooperatively to protect and preserve the natural geography, historical heritage, and rural character of the Saugatuck Dunes coastal region in the Kalamazoo River Watershed, beginning with the Saugatuck Dunes.
OUR GEOGRAPHY IS OUR ECONOMY
With over one million visitors each year, it makes sound economic sense to protect and preserve what attracts visitors to the Saugatuck Dunes Coastal region in the first place. Throughout the last hundred years, much of that attraction has been our unique natural heritage: the dynamic splendor of Lake Michigan, our beautiful beaches, the Saugatuck Dunes, the tranquil woods, and running through the middle of it all—creating stunning vistas of land and water from every angle—the Kalamazoo River flows through the Harbor and out into the Lake. To be here is to be a part of two worlds: one on land and one on water.
