HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1978.02.02 - 12663February 2, 1978
REPORT
BY PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE, RICHARD R. WILCOX, CHAIRMAN
RE: MISCELLANEOUS RESOLUTION 4 8313 - CONVERSION OF STATE RECREATION
LAND TO OTHER USES
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY Ec)ARD OF COMMISSIO NERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The Planning and Building Committee has reviewed Miscellaneous Resolution #8313
and recommends that said resolution be adopted.
Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the Planning and Building Committee, I move the
acceptance of the foregoing report.
PLANNING AND BUILDING- COMMITTEE
Wilcox, Chairman
January 17, 1978
Miscellaneous Resolution #
BY Robert A. McConnell, County Commissioner, District #25; Robert H. Gorsline,
County Commissioner, District i'l2; Dennis Murphy, County Commissioner,
District #.24; Joseph R. Montante, M.D, County Commissioner, District '4'26
Richard R. Wilcox, County Commissioner, District #1
IN RE 7 CONVERSION OF STATE RECREATION LANDS TO OTHER USES
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD O F COMMISSI DNERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS, for the past several months the Joint Capital Outlay Committee of the
Michigan Legislature has been considering the former Nike Base in the Proud Lake Recreation
Area, Pelletier Unit, for a corrections facility; and
WHEREAS, this property is presently under the control of the Department of Natural
Resources and was acquired by the State for recreational uses; and
WHEREAS, the consideration of the former Nike Base is of a nature significant
enough to set a precedent that by using this property for anything other than recreational
uses would be a poor public policy and would affect ANY community having state owned
recreational land within its boundaries; and
WHEREAS, the 1990 Regional Recreation and Open Space Plan for Southeast
Michigan calls for retention of land within state recreation areas and acquisition of additional
land contiguous with such areas; and
WHEREAS, the 1990 Regional Land Use Policy Plan for Southeast Michigan states that
activity center development should not take place in areas not proposed for sewer service,
which areas include all state Recreation Areas in the southeast Michigan region; and
WHEREAS, conversion of state recreation lands to use as correctional facilities would
have the effect of generating serious local opposition to further acquisition of recreation lands
by public agencies.
NW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
is opposed to the conversion of state recreation lands to correctional facilities, as well as to
the interim use of such lands as sites for prisons, jails, or detention areas; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Oakland County Board of Commissioners is opposed
to the use of all or part o f existing or proposed regional public recreation and open space areas,
as defined in the 1990 Regional Recreation and Open Space Plan for Southeast Michigan, for
any non-recreational development, unless an equal amount of land with equal or greater resource
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Montante, M, D„, DistricTr276
Oakland County Commissioner
Richard R, Wilcox, Distric
Oakland County Commissioner
:
amenities and accessibility to the people of southeast Michigan is mode available for public
recreational use
Mr, Chairman, we move the adoption of the foregoing resolution,
Robert A ne11Dit#25
Oakland County Commissioner
Robert H. Gorsl -Pie, District #2
Oakland County Commissioner
Dennis Murphy, Dist71--Tc.
Oakland County Commissioner
#8313 February 2, 1978
Moved by Wilcox supported by Fortino the report be accepted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Wilcox supported by Fortino the rules be suspended for immediate
consideration of the resolution.
AYES: McConnell, McDonald, Moffitt, Montante, Moxley, Murphy, Olson, Page,
Perinoff, Pernick, Peterson, Price, Simson, Wilcox, Aaron, Daly, Doyon, Fortino;
Gabler, Hoot, Kasper, Kelly, Lanni. (23)
NAYS: None. (0)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the motion carried.
Moved by Wilcox supported by McConnell that Resolution #8313 be adopted.
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, Resolution #8313 was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and
having a seal, do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
...Resolution .#831.3 .adopted , by the Oakland County , of . connissioners ..
at their meeting held on February 2, 1978
with the original record thereof now remaining in my
office, and that it is a true and correct transcript
therefrom, and of the whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
this 2nd day of. ..... 197 8 ..
Lynn D. Allen Clerk
By Deputy Clerk