CHARLEVOIX COUNTY PRESS Volume 105 Number 14 June 6, 1984 25 Cents
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BAST JORDAN PUBLIC LIBRARY PO BOX G EAST JORDAN, MI, 4972 7 CHARLEVOIX COUNTY PRESS Volume 105 Number 14 June 6, 1984 25 cents Biggest Great Lakes development announced Perhaps the biggest real estate re Company, which owns the land. In the planning, three golf courses ings would be recycled. next spring, according to Mary Feindt Charlevoix-Emmet County community sort project to be seen in the great Specific areas for the project in are indicated on the site plans, and The kiln dust mounds would be of Charlevoix Abstract and Engineer lakes area was revealed today to the is not totally known at this time, the clude the marina, which will be built three of the biggest names in course removed and the land where the ing, the developers firm of record. aspect of many jobs for the reclama Emmet County Planning commission in the present quarry that is already building are being considered for the cement company was working would This newspaper has known of the in Petoskey. tion and construction of the project 85 feet below the level of Lake Mich development. be smoothed over and replanted, said project since its inception, and be for many years is welcome, according The project, which involves all of igan. A channel will be dug to the Some of the present structures will Hickory. cause of the scope of it, has withheld to some of the officials who are in the former Dundee-Penn Dixie Cem lake which will be large enough to be retained according to the plans. The plant last made cement in 1980 the information until it was formally volved. ent company, Includes six miles of accommodate boats of 100 feet and One area idea is that the present and has been idle since it was closed announced. The newspaper has As MacNaughton said to a repor beach frontage, a 2400 boatslip more. cement silos would be come condo down because it wasn't an up-to-date agreed to become the publisher of a ter's question, "this will become the marina, protected from Lake Michi The hotel site will be located in the minium buildings, according to Jack plant. It was purchased from Penn- newspaper for the proposed resort gan, over 2400 condominium sites, biggest and the best resort complex center of the project on land on the Begrow, the developers local archi Diiie by the Dundee Corp. as a place area, to be called the Petoskey Har on the entire great lakes. This will put 200 single family home sites, three shoreline of the lake. Several nation tect. to store cement on Lake Michigan. bor Observer. championship style golf courses and a our area 'on the map' for large ally known firms have already in Most of the cement plant would be If everything goes as planned, con While the impact on the entire resorts." 150 unit hotel-convention site. quired as to when it would be ready. salvaged and the steel in the build struction and reclaimation could start The proposed site plan was un veiled by members of the Flagler Venture, Inc., a development corpor ation which has an office here in Boyne City and West Palm Beach, DNR schedules another hearing for marina Fla, Heading up the presentation was Don MacNaughton, a local realtor and developer, along with Richard Hick An informational meeting to allow bottom would have been taken up by drive to object to the intrusion into The proposed marina is going to be an open house on the site this coming ory, a longtime Horton Bay citizens to express their views and to the proposed marina. the lake. resident. located approximately 1000 feet west Sunday afternoon. allow the developers of Hemingway In March, one of the two bodies After the DNR started to receive of where Sanderson Road comes Experts hired by the developer will The development will require many Pointe Club to answer those questions that govern lake use, the Army Corps the petitions, they asked for a meet down to the lake. Some of the people be on hand to answer questions about approvals from various conservation has been scheduled by the Depart of Engineers, granted their approval ing with the developers, Birchwood objecting to the project had thought the proposed marina. and environmental organizations, ac ment of Natural Resources next Wed for the marina. Farms Construction Co. The purpose that the marina was just a few feet off The marina, with 72 slips, is for the cording to the firm's attorneys, Wil nesday, June 13, at the Charlevoix The DNR, because of the ice on the of the meeting is to try to determine a the Sanderson Road easement. convenience of the owners of the liam McTaggart and Stu Fenner, of High School gymnasium at 7 p.m. lake and the need for testing and better plan. The site is actually in a small cove condominiums that are being built on Fenner, Bonner and Hoffman. Plans While the meeting is informational netting of game fish from the area, After meeting-with the DNR, the between a creek and pond at the the site. The developers thought that call for the tearing down of the pres in scope, it is the second meeting the asked that the approval be held up developers offered a solution to the westerly end of where the present having one boat storage area instead ent cement factory, and the reclaim DNR is having concerning a proposed until the tests could be performed original plan by moving the proposed homes are located, and the point of several placed along the shoreline ing of the several thousand acres that marina that the developers of the after the ice left and the water marina inland 120 feet, keeping the itself. would be more aesthetically sound the proposed development will utilize. project want included in their site warmed up to 55 degrees so the same size marina but only utilizing To show where the proposed mar planning when they applied for the The project is to be called Petoskey plan for the use of those who will be gamefish would start their spawning 3½ acres of the lake bottom. ina is going to be installed, the devel construction permit last November. Harbor. It has been said that it will living in the homes. process. This was accepted by the DNR as a opers are marking out on land and in The informational hearing at the parallel, in development, Hilton head, The meeting is the result of groups It was during this delay that the better way, according to letters that the water, the boundry of the marina. Charlevoix High School is to answer which is in North Carolina. sending petitions to the DNR request sportsfishermen learned of the pro the DNR sent out to those objectors a They are also asking that those who any objections before the DNR ap The scope of the project is immense ing that they reject the approval of posed marina and started a petition couple of weeks ago. want to see where it will be, come to proves or disapproves the granting of in that it will take several years for the proposed marina because the the permit. the project in Resort Township to be shore along the site is supposed to be completed. When completed, the pro good breeding grounds for fish. ject will add millions to the tax base The shore, where the marina is of the township. proposed, is mostly composed of Paul Michael awarded EJ Rotary Man of the Year In essence, the developers are pro shale. The lake bottom in the area posing the building of a city-sized requires that a person walk out sever resort complex just outside of Petos al hundred feet to get to water over key. -~ •. —' • --. - six feet in depth. Paul Michael was named the 29th He is also an active member of the iflSSSdevelopers will not be doing The concerned sportsmen who ob "Father of the Year" by the East East Jordan Sports Boosters. the actual construction, according to ject to the site have said that the area Jordan Rotary Club at their annual Michael was picked for the title MacNaughton, but will be offering for of the lake is some of the best fishing banquet held in May. after his name was presented to the sale sections of the project to those area available. Michael is the father of three child Rotary Club's banquet committee, When the first hearing on the pro companies who wish to build the ren, son Paul, daughters Sheila and which then selected him the Father of posed site was heard by the DNR cotados, the townhouses and the Jenny. His wife is Charlene Michael. the Year. back in February, there were few homes. Criteria for the award included al objections to the marina, which at He has lived in the East Jordan While the cement plant has been most every activity that Michael has that time was supposed to go out into area for the past 15 years, and has looked at for several years by devel been involved with, especially his the lake with a breakwall for the been very active in many East Jordan opers, the Flagler group is the only community service. He is also a hold protection of the boats that condo and Charlevoix County civic groups. one who has been able to put the er of perfect attendance at the club minium owners would be docking He is a former city council member, project together in a form that makes a past director of the Camp Daggett for the past 12 years.