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A panorama of our country today reveals bigger gashes,
deeper wounds in the good earth, more pits and slag
heaps where soil has been mined and desolation left
behind. More trees and topsoil are ripped out to make
room for the steel and asphalt of the crowding, sprawl-
ing urban complexes. For Lincoln Township residents

no vineyard, orchard, or family farm has value if more
money can be made putting up factories and warehouses-~
regardless of the landmarks destroyed or charming
surroundings where something of our past is preserved--
even parks deeded to the public “in perpetuity."

Those of us who cannot bear to sit idly by and watch
God's own country being turned into "God's own junk-
yard" present this in our determination to preserve
what is left of the natural beauty of our lend.

Three local service (?) organizations supported
Planned Development recently in a flyer mailed to all
Lincoln Twp. residents. To their proposals we say,

YACHT BASIN--Fine, but why 150 acres of commercial and
industrial zoning adjacent to it? What are they pre-
paring us for, a Michigan version of Indiana's Burns
Harbor project? in which hundreds of acres of sylvan
dune landscape were leveled into the swamps to prepare
space for steel mills, rail yards and coal shipping
facilities. And since when does private development
create public waterways as stated in their flyer recom-
mending the rape of Grand Mere?

 

A REAL JOKER!

f™ IMITED INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT-—Why?

Lincoln Twp. is COMMERCIAL DISTRICT--Again, residents

If we

the smallest township in Berrien County.
try to provide all local needs, including employ-
ment for our residents, and ample open space for
our liesure, there will be no room for population

growth! There's no residential development allowed
in commercial-industrial districts. And besides,

ae commercial zone is provided at present in Lincoln
Twp., without Grand Mere Planned Development! And,
who lost Beechnut Foods? They never looked at the
area, but rumor allowed that they were considering
a site in southwestern Michigan. Any seriou 5
tentions on their part would certainly have” —2n\
satisfied by a variance of the zoning in effect at
that time--and it could be met this way tomorrow!

This is planned development, too, since the devel-
opers of Grand Mere have presented no specific use
for the area either--other than sand mining.

 

in a township of our size must take
advantage of their proximity to sur-
rounding commercial resources! This
is the last half of the twentieth
century and each man doesn't need his
source of nourishment in the “back
forty,” any more than he must toil
in the neighborhood shops for his
livelyhood. Wor, is this desireable.

A man's home should really be his
castle, away from the marketplace and
Deyond the din of commerce.

So, let's have a golf course;
let's have a motel or two--but, let's
NOT have it under "open door" Planned
Development. Let's be more specific
in our zoning variances. Don't buy
a pig in @ poke.

RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT--This area didn't need rezoning except to "wrap up" the commercial-
industrial “package” with an attractive "cover," rather like the sugar coating on a bitter

pill.

The new Planned Development-Residential area was residential before rezoning.

Now,

however, we'll have Country Clubs (Bunny Clubs?), Yacht Clubs, and Residences--not merely
standard or code specification buildings, but super structures requiring extraordinary

/—~"Planned Development."
than minimal standard?

Since when do we need special zoning permitting buildings better

VOTE "NO" IN THE JUNE 6 REFERENDUM ON PLANNED DEVELOPMENT

The Grand Mere Association + P.O. Box 140 + Stevensville, Michigan 49127