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Century-old agreement leads to dispute over Saugatuck property
SAUGATUCK, Mich. (WOOD) — The long fight over the development of prized land running along dunes, Lake Michigan and the Kalamazoo River goes back more than 100 years. It was 5 o'clock April 27, 1904 [...]
Environmental group still opposing marina development
By Sydney.Smith / @hollandsentinel.com (616) 546-4219 Posted Apr 17, 2018 at 11:00 AM DOUGLAS — The Saugatuck Dunes Coastal Alliance announced April 16 its ongoing legal strategy to oppose a development they say is putting the dunes at risk. read more [...]
Michigan Marina Project Near Sand Dunes Gets Key Permit
Feb. 2, 2018, at 5:20 p.m. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has given a marina and home development project in the Lake Michigan sand dunes a key permit it needs to move forward. SAUGATUCK [...]
Saugatuck Dunes Face Imminent Threat
Dec 08, 2017 David Swan TCLF first listed Saugatuck Dunes as a threatened site in its 2011 Landslide: The Landscape I Love. But efforts to protect the lightly settled coastal area at the mouth of [...]
Two sides at odds over development plans for Saugatuck Dunes
By STATESIDE STAFF • AUG 11, 2017 A stretch of sand dunes along Lake Michigan might be under development soon, and a lot of people are concerned about that. They want to protect the [...]
It is good to see that the Michigan Department of Natural Resources includes the Padnos property within the proposed expansion boundary for Saugatuck Dunes State Park. This is a public policy vision that has been firmly established for more than thirty years.
The yellow dotted line on the map below highlights the proposed expansion boundary.
As if suing the Army Corps of Engineers over a land dispute and threatening to sue Fire Chief Janik weren't enough. Now Jeff Padnos, Scott & Brian Bosgraaf, and their lawyer Carl Gabrielse, acting as Northshore of Saugatuck, are now questioning the treaty rights of the two federally-recognized Tribal Nations, Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi and Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians.
Jim Morley says: