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Overflow Crowd Packs Council Hall to Protest Osed Trailer Park Chrysler Corp. Proving Gronnds^Elefepating 40Th Year in Chelsea L mmm twmm mmmmmmmm—m mm mm mm " C* •**• «>*.7fc - i ". r r t- ; •- / , • i . t M--^::-\-!.- M^Mr;;, ; ;.. M I-:„ \ w\ •• ' . I .• \.( 1_ T .• . • T- ("JH 1 'T \ M r J \z • QUOTE "Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one genera­ /n>r /VJ/J v tion te another." -G.K. Chesterton / ^ Willed on Recycled Paper ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-THIRD YEAR—No. S Plu» CHELSEA, MICHIGAN, WEONESDAY, JUNE 22 J994 20 Pages This Week * suppi*men^ Overflow Crowd Packs Council Hall To Protest osed Trailer Park Last Tuesday, June 14, at the cerns expressed generally focused on to the Planning Commission for Village Council's regularly scheduled the lack of school district facilities to review and recommendation. In addi­ meeting, the temperature outside was handle the large numbers of addi­ tion, the Village Council agreed to set in the nineties and the emotional tional school age children generated a date at its next Council meeting for temperature inside Sylvan Township by trailer parks, and the incom- a working session to be held where the Hall was even hotter. A standing- patability of such a high density use specific concerns brought up by ^he room only assembly of village and with surrounding low density residen­ citizens can be addressed and staff township residents was on hand to tial and agricultural uses. has had an opportunity to analyzeajnd voice their view thattho4and-feHhe^ - Emotions ran high with the people report-baek- on them; The next ^ttme .proposed trailer park, next to the in the sweltering Hall. Council Presi­ this issue will appear for action pit fee sewage treatment plant should not be dent Steele was forced to gavel the agenda was tentatively schedutedrfor annexed to the Village. crowd to silence several times when July 28 at which time most of'the The developers of the proposed more than one speaker at a time felt review process should be complete'. park, Martin Merkel and Phil Jenkins compelled to shout out and make their Meanwhile, community menlb^rs want to tap into the Village's water views known. No speaker rose to sup­ at the meeting indicated that aJafge and sewer system to allow the high port the annexation. scale effort has been mounted to col­ density they need for the trailer use. One old-hand Council watcher, lect signatures on a petition to be The Village has a long standing policy Luther Kusterer, said "he never presented to the Village Council not to extend services to areas that before, witnessed such unanimity of demonstrating the depth of opposition are not part of the Village. The size of opinion expressed by so many at a to the annexation. Organizers Ginger the parcel is large enough, 157 acres, Council meeting." Haugen, Margaret Schankler and An­ to install as many as 850 trailers, Citizen comments ranged over a na Eusades report that hundreds of roughly_the same size as the Scio wide spectrum of opinion? Objection signatures have been gathered Farms Estates mobile home park™d¥~ -eafne-from-the-restrained comments -already withihe^fjtotto^contlnue til presented to Village Council at Jackson Rd., also owned by Phil of Greg McKenzie, Lima" Township : Jenkins. Planning Commission chairman, who their next meeting. The land is currently being said, "that Lima Township is just In contrast to the heat generated by cultivated and is planted this year in finishing its new master plan and is the Merkel annexation issue, little STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL at the Chelsea Fanners and Janet Salyer made three trips back to the farm for xorn and soybeans. The surrounding seeking to protect the rural character was said in opposition to .the .28 Market Saturday was so successful that the vendors more berries while eager buyers waited to snatch them up uses are mostly agricultural as well. of the township and encourage millage increase approved fc(y Coun­ couldn't pick enough to keep ahead of the buyers. Luther as soon as they arrived at the market. A tree nursery, sheep farm, and a cat­ agricultural uses as a means of cil. Richard Rigg was the onljrCCuncil tle breeding facility are all located on preserving open space and maintain­ member to express concern for the its southern and eastern boundaries. 1 ing the distinctive difference between small increase expected to generate urban and country on the -fringes of approximately 120,000 in additional A brief presentation was made first Chelsea: A trailer park of this possible operational revenue. Rigg cautioned Chrysler Corp. Proving by Steve Tracy, spokesman for the magnitude would be devastating to that even this small increase in tax developers, who seemed to have dif­ our planning and would result in con­ obligation was too much to bear for ficulty describing what the intended gested streets and contribute to urban the older residents of the village try­ usage of the land was to be until an au­ sprawl." ing to make ends meet on fixed in­ dience member clarified the matter In contrast, several others, like Jen­ comes, and, therefore, would vote Gronnds^elefepating by shouting, "trailer park!" Tracy nie Maynard, Village resident and against it. Brian Cashman indicated responded by saying he did not want mother of school age children, spoke that the small amount represents only to use such a label and that the mobile passionately and personally about the an increase sufficient to cover the cost home industry prefers the more be­ currently overburdened school of inflation over the last year. nign term, "manufactured housing" system and the lack of community In other news of note, Tim Merkel, 40th Year in Chelsea to describe their development pro- resources to absorb so many people so Mark Wesley and Kathy Carter were Forty years ago the Chelsea Prov­ road testing data. A large and diverse nesting sites near the roadbed were Posal. quickly. reappointed to the Village Planning ing grounds was opened to test staff of engineers and technicians undisturbed by the recent construc­ After Tracy's opening comments, In response to the intensity of the Commission which will have met last Chrysler Corporation's latest car work to test the Chrysler vehicles tion. speaker alter speaker got up to argue opposition Village Council voted to night to take up the Merkel annexa- . models. Where today the Viper and under every conceivable road condi­ In the last two years Chrysler has against the annexation. Most con­ refer the Merkel annexation proposal tion issue referred tothem by Council. the LH sedans prowl the teat tracks, tion. Who would believe that in the introduced several very popular new the memories of the old DeSoto and heart of Sylvan township farm coun­ car models. Taken together they have the Hemi englned road monsters still try lies an auto testing facility second reinvigorated the once ailing com­ stir fh the old hands who remember to none in the world? Where sheep pany. Record profits have been When the facility opened way back in lazily graze Just outside its 10-foot- reported for the last two quarters, Laurie Honbaum Is 2nd 1964/ high wire fence, cars routinely travel Chrysler stock has appreciated Reporters from all over the country in excess of 100 mph and are put several fold over the last year, and the gathered Monday to look oyer the new through the most grueling of off-road company is regarded by analysts as "Automated Durability Road" near- testing just behind the trees and one of the most cost efficient pro- 1nf«oTnpte^n7Th^Chelsea^tandard berms. —dtfcersin thtf world-wide auttrln^ in Miss Mich, first reported on this new rough road As this reporter put a new Viper dustry. All of the car models that test track in its Dec. 8,1993 issue so a through its screaming paces on an S helped turn Chrysler around were repeat description is not necessary curved test track, I smiled as I raced performance tested at the proving here. Suffice it to say,, that the new down the straights knowing that just a grounds, making the Chelsea facility few hundred yards beyond, the calm and its local staff pivotal to the com- eant track when made operational next - pony's new-found successrMost of the- driven by robots and computers. What disturbed by the Viper's terrible roar. staff live here in the Chelsea area and Laurie Honbaum returned Sunday was of greater interest to this The Chrysler Proving Grounds is are our neighbors and friends. They after a week of no contact with family reporter, however, was the sheer one of the area's largest employers go about their business behind the or friends while competing in the Miss scale and complexity of the larger and prides itself on being a good gate on M-52 quietly with little in the Michigan Scholarship Pageant held in facility which most of us living here in neighbor. Great care is taken to in- way of recognition from the locaLMuskegon, __ Chelsea take for granted and see very sure that to the extent possible, and community. She arrived home a little tired, but little of as we pass by the M-52 gate. given the demands of the testing pro- Because the proving grounds com- extremely happy with the outcome. Behind that gate lies a vast gram, wildlife habitats remain un- plex is so important to the local com- The competition began Wednesday 3,800-acre tract which contains miles disturbed.. Rick LaLone, program munity, and because they are such with personal interviews held with the oi^multi-condiuon roadways ana a director for the neww test track oon—vern y good corporate 'neighbors, •wewe~ judges.
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