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Crosswinds conducts survey on Mt. Bohemia referendum
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Janet Shea, Copper Harbor business owner |
By Janet Shea
for Keweenaw Today
10/08/00
Keweenaw County residents recently received phone calls from Marmen Research of Menominee, Mich. The callers asked one or more questions, including this one: ’ÄúYou are having an election on
November 7 in Keweenaw County, and Proposal B will ask voters to vote ’Äòyes’Äô or ’Äòno’Äô on the development of Mt. Bohemia Ski Hill, located near Lac La Belle. If there were an election held today, as you feel
now would you vote for or against Mt. Bohemia Ski Hill?’Äù
Darlene Cavanaugh, an employee of Marmen Research, stated that if the
answer was ’Äúno’Äù the interviewers were instructed to ask why.
Marmen Research also stated that the survey was requested by the
Committee for a Better Keweenaw County Economy. On September 22, 2000, a Statement of Organization for Ballot Question Committees, required by
law in order to run a campaign on a referendum issue, was filed with the County Clerk at the Keweenaw County Courthouse. It listed the Committee’Äôs
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This house at 816 Quincy Street, Hancock, has been used as an office for Crosswinds and a legal address for the Committee for a
Better Keweenaw County Economy, which recently conducted a survey on the Mt. Bohemia zoning change referendum in Keweenaw County. |
Identification No. 57250 for reporting purposes; its date of formation ’Äì September 13, 2000; and its address ’Äì 816 Quincy Street, Hancock, MI 49930.
Chris Koren of Keweenaw
Adventure Travel, who operates the summer kayaking program for Crosswinds/Mt. Bohemia, stated that the house at that address was used as their office as well as a satellite office for Crosswinds. Jim Remple, also
associated with Crosswinds, was residing there until recently.
Lonie R. Glieberman is listed on the form as Committee Treasurer.
Depositories of committee funds are listed as Bank One, Farmington Hills, Mich., and, as secondary depository, D&N Bank, Hancock. The reporting
waiver was unchecked to indicate that the committee does NOT expect to receive or expend in excess of $1,000 for an election.
Glieberman, when asked about the survey question being out of context with the wording of Proposal B, said it would have been difficult to explain the
Conservation District-Environmental Protection (CD-EP) vs. Resort Service (RS) zoning in a poll of this kind. County Proposal B is as follows:
Shall Keweenaw County Zoning Ordinance amendment NO. KC-001-R00 and zoning maps be amended so that parcels of land in Township 58 North, Range 29
West, Section 28 the SW ¬º, Section 29 the S ¬‡ of N ¬‡ and S ¬‡, Section 30 the SE ¬º of the SE ¬º, a portion of Mount Bohemia, which are zoned as Conservation
District-Environmental Protection be rezoned as Resort Services and section 3.4 of the Zoning Ordinance - ZONING DISTRICTS, section 5-RS Resort Service District,
sub-section b. Permitted Uses be amended with the inclusion of item 12) Ski Resort, including base lodges, lifts, storage and maintenance buildings, restaurants, and related uses?
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This map shows the areas of Mt. Bohemia, currently zoned as CD-EP, which Crosswinds requested be changed to RS. Proposal B on the Nov. 7 election ballot allows Keweenaw
County voters to vote ’Äúyes’Äù if they favor the proposed zoning change and the proposed amendment to allow ski hills as a permitted use in RS zoning or to vote ’Äúno’Äù if they
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The committee has not yet released results of the poll, which was concluded on September 27, 2000.
Cavanaugh stated this was just the first step and further analysis of the information would be done.
’Äì Janet Shea
October 8, 2000
Editor’Äôs Note: Guest columnist Janet Shea is a resident of Eagle Harbor Township, a Copper Harbor business owner and a member of the Mt. Bohemia Advisory Council.
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