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AUGUST 2004 Volume 39 No AUGUST 2004 Volume 39 No. 3 THE MICHIGAN www.mi-riparian.org DEVOTED TO THE MANAGEMENT AND WISE USE OF MICHIGAN’S LAKES AND STREAMS Published Quarterly – February, May, August and November HUBBARD LAKE – ALCONA COUNTY THE MICHIGAN In This Issue Cover: Hubbard Lake, Alcona County www.mi-riparian.org 8 MANAGEMENT OF LAKEFRONTS AND “THE MICHIGAN RIPARIAN (ISSN 0279-2524) is published quarterly for $2.00 per issue by the RIVERFRONTS THROUGH PLANNING & Michigan Riparian Inc., P.O. Box 249, Three Riv- ZONING ers, Michigan 49093. Periodicals postage paid at Three Rivers, Michigan and additional mail- ing offices.” 10 PETE PETOSKEY INDUCTED IN MUCC’S POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: CONSERVATION HALL OF FAME The Michigan Riparian P.O. Box 249 Three Rivers, MI 49093 11 THE ATTORNEY WRITES—Clifford Bloom The Michigan RIPARIAN is the only magazine 14 STREAM STUDY TRAINING–IRON RIVER devoted exclusively to protection, preservation and improvement of Michigan waters and to the rights 15 NEW SEPTIC SYSTEMS APPROVED of riparian owners to enjoy their waterfront property. The Michigan RIPARIAN is published quarterly 20 FAYETTE STATE PARK–DELTA COUNTY and is mailed to subscribers during February, May, August and November. 21 GIANT INVADERS THREATEN FISHERY THE MICHIGAN RIPARIAN magazine is owned and published by the Michigan Riparian Inc., a Michigan non-profit corporation. The Michigan Riparian magazine adds Contributing 1 Editors to its staff. The new editors and their areas of EDITORIAL and BUSINESS OFFICE: 124 ⁄2 N. Main Street, P.O. Box 249, Three Rivers, MI 49093. expertise are listed below: TELEPHONE: 269-273-8200 Dr. Lois Wolfson, Institute of Water Research, FAX: 269-273-2919 Michigan State University. Area of expertise— ADVERTISING DEADLINE: No later than 1st of the Aquatic Plants. month preceding month of publication. Anthony Groves, Progressive AE of Grand ADVERTISING RATES: Sent upon request. Rapids. Tony’s area of expertise is Land Use and SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Water Quality. Individual Subscription .......................................................... $8.00 Dr. Don Garling, Department of Fisheries and Group Rates: 10 to 49 Subscriptions ................................... $7.00 50 or more, or all members of a Lake Association .............. $6.00 Wildlife, Michigan State University. Area of expertise is Fisheries Management. EDITOR and PUBLISHER: Donald E. Winne Bob Weir, Writer and Communications Printed by J.B. Printing, Kalamazoo, MI 49007. Consultant, Port Huron, Michigan. Areas of expertise include land use, water resources, and stewardship of those resources. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS OF THE MICHIGAN RIPARIAN, INC. David Maturen, President Merrill Petoskey, Vice President Donald E. Winne, Chief Executive Officer THE MICHIGAN RIPARIAN SUBSCRIPTION COUPON Dr. Robert King, Director (Mail to: The Michigan Riparian, P.O. Box 249, Three Rivers, Michigan 49093.) 1 William Hokanson, Director Office address: 124 /2 N. Main St. Please enter my subscription to The Michigan Riparian magazine. One year rate: $8.00 The Michigan Riparian, Inc. is not responsible for views expressed by our advertisers or writers in this magazine. While The Michigan Riparian, Inc. has not intentionally printed incorrect material or omissions, the contents are nevertheless the responsibility of the parties furnishing First Name Initial Last Name material for this magazine. Accuracy of information is subject to infor- mation known to us at printing deadline. We apologize for any errors. Street Address Copyright ©2003 by The Michigan Riparian, Inc. No maps, illustrations or other portions of this magazine may be repro- duced in any form without written permission from the publisher. City State Zip Code The Michigan Riparian 7 AUGUST 2004 Management of Lakefronts • Pressure and Riverfronts through Increasing Planning & Zoning On Waterfront by John D. Warbach, Ph.D., Principal Planning & Zoning Center, Inc., Lansing, MI Phone: (517) 886-0555 • Axiom: Someone will initiate change on the Big Picture lakefront. • Lakes need protection – Water quality – The lakefront experience •How we build on the lakefront and in the watershed Who will initiate change? affects: • Existing lakefront cottage or home owners – Water quality • Future property owners • Absentee owners – Lakefront experience • Local government • Speculators • Developers •Will the impact of that change be planned for—or will it just happen? Discussion Point for your Lake Association: Management by Dreaming or by Planning • Individuals who want to do their own thing with- out consequences: – Develop shoreline to maximum fun use but want lake to stay in good shape – Every- •The form of building one else be lake-friendly • Or is there a community is generally regulated spirit? • What will be cumulative effect of indi- by zoning. vidual actions? • Local government • What will be cumulative effect of individual actions? (usually townships) is the arena in which planning & zoning takes place Involvement • There is a continual • Jobs • Kids/grandkids • Increased travel time due turnover of lakefront to sprawl • Keeping up house and yard • Church or property owners service organizations • Lake association activities • Recreation/stress relief/unwinding • Hobbies • Time for community planning? • Is Zoning Planning Tools to Support Zoning Typically •Watershed Plan Up-to-Date? • Lake Management Plan • Local Master Plan, Land Use or Comprehensive Plan The Michigan Riparian 8 AUGUST 2004 Sets Forth Goals • Ownership • Protection of water quality • Access to the water – IF YOU ARE UNHAPPY WITH THE • Community character and lake naturalness PROSPECT OF DEVELOPMENT—BUY THE PROPERTY Three keys: – Purchase of parklands/access 1. Public education—public input 2. Inventory— – Conservation Easements data base to know what you have and trends (water – Purchase of Development Rights (PDR) quality, access, variance requests, etc.) 3. Stra- – IS A TOOL TO IMPLEMENT PLANNING tegies—how to achieve goals AND COMES AFTER EDUCATION AND Three Approaches: PLANNING AND ALONG WITH 1. Education 2. Regulation 3. Ownership REGULATION • Education Ownership: – Lake management principles (action—result) Access sites need to – Lake friendly landscapes be reasonable in –Pollution prevention relation to adjoining – Green building practices property owners and – Zoning ordinance (does your lake association carrying capacity of have a copy?) lakes – COMES BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER PLANNING AND REGULATION • Regulation—zoning and police power –BALANCES PRIVATE RIGHTS AND PUBLIC INTERESTS – Setbacks – Lot coverage – Height –Keyhole –Fertilizer, Septic & Pet Waste – Performance standards – Building codes – CHANGES IN REGULATION COMES AFTER EDUCATION AND PLANNING Take home lessons: • Change will happen with you or without you. • Planning and zoning is a tool to balance private rights with public interests—remember the word Performance Standards balance—you are sometimes dealing with Examples: competing interests. • Clean stormwater • Education has to be constant—new lakefront • No nutrient pollution owners and turnover of local officials. • Public views of the water remain • Planning and zoning are part of the handbook of life • Emergency access on the lake—like the instructions on your boat • Other motor. ✦ The Michigan Riparian 9 AUGUST 2004 PETE PETOSKEY INDUCTED IN MUCC’S CONSERVATION HALL OF FAME Courtesy Albert Township, Montmorency County, Michigan The name of Merrill “Pete” Petoskey is legendary in conservation than politics govern their decisions, Petoskey and peers won a national circles, not only here in Michigan, but nationally as well. His reputation for Michigan as a wildlife leader.” abbreviated resume is so extensive that a typist would have to use a One of Pete’s great strengths has been his ability to express his size 8 font to fit it all onto one page. opinion, to suggest both a problem and its solution, whether it was Born in 1923, Pete has devoted both his personal and professional politically correct or not. He is a man of great conviction and personal life to conservation and a passion for “stewardship” of our natural courage. Many people gravitated to his strong leadership style, as they resources. After getting his B.S. in Forestry-Wildlife Management from knew that he could always be counted on to speak the truth, regardless Michigan State University in 1943, Pete served his country in the Field of the personal risk. In fact, “speaking the truth” is number 16 on Pete’s Artillery of the U.S. Army during WWII, during which time he advanced list of 24 Principals of Leadership that have been his personal and from Private to Captain and suffered the significant professional guide. Among these are: hearing loss that has become the foundation for the Principal #6: When assigned a duty, do it booming voice that is impossible to ignore. After without squawking. mustering out, Pete returned to Michigan State Principal #9: A position is easy to handle University and earned his Masters in Forestry- when the previous incumbent Wildlife Management in 1947. After that, Pete was fired. returned to the military to serve in the Korean Principal #10: Regardless of how much you conflict, and then embarked on a long and significant know, or think you know, you natural resources career that took him from Wildlife don’t know everything. Ecologist to Chief of the Wildlife Division with the Principal #16: Always speak the truth, and Michigan Department of Natural Resources (then the then you don’t have to Michigan Department of Conservation),
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