Control over gravel in jeopardy

  • Hundreds of people packed into Solon Township Hall for a Kasson Township Planning Commission meeting regarding a proposed Enduro motorbike event. Enterprise photo by Brian Freiberger
    Hundreds of people packed into Solon Township Hall for a Kasson Township Planning Commission meeting regarding a proposed Enduro motorbike event. Enterprise photo by Brian Freiberger
Local officials are speaking out against proposed state legislation that would jeopardize — or outright eliminate — local control over gravel mining. Greg Julian is supervisor of Kasson Township, which has one of the largest gravel reserves in northwest Michigan (and perhaps the state as a whole), and has gone to great lengths to accommodate gravel mining. “There is approximately 130 million…

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