St James Recreation Plan Survey Comments

medic5740 · Post by **medic5740** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:12 am

This document contains all Public Comments received by Peter Plastrik through January 22 in response to the Discussion Draft of a St. James Township recreation plan released for comment on January 2, 2012. A printed copy is available at the Beaver Island Library. It is anticipated that the St. James Township Board will hold a public hearing on the discussion draft at its regularly scheduled meeting on February 1, before considering adoption of a plan. Additional public comments may be sent to pete@in4c.net until January 31, 2012 or to PO Box 248, Beaver Island, MI 49782 until January 30, 2012.

http://beaverislandnews.com/St%20James% ... 012212.pdf

IslandVoice · Post by **IslandVoice** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 9:33 am

Jared, Well stated

GW · Post by GW » Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:17 pm

Agreed

GW · Post by GW » Mon Jan 23, 2012 2:28 pm

IslandVoice wrote:Jared, Well stated

I especially liked Jared's quote. -"To the naked eye, this looks like another slanted piece of garbage, brought about by the left-winged nut jobs, that that need not be named. If you are actually interested in Beaver Island Recreation Plan, the plan should start by not just including the idiots ideas." He really hit the nail on the head.

jflanagan · Post by **jflanagan** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 6:25 pm

Why is it in a set of comments that contain mostly civil suggestions, ideas and thoughts the only comment getting mentioned is the one that sinks to insults and name calling. Cannot we disagree without nastiness?

AEW · Post by **AEW** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 6:59 pm

Folks, lets keep this whole Recreation Plan Survey in perspective. Here is the bottom line of why it was done from what I am told.

In order for the St James township to be able to apply for a grant from the DNR to construct a boat ramp the township must have on file a recreation plan. period. It would have saved a lot of grief if that was written on the top of the survey but it was not.

I personally believe that just listing the current recreational opportunities on the Island makes for a pretty good plan. There are to many to list.

I too believe that trying to combine the "Recreation" plan with invasive species and other environmental issues is a bad mix. Though there may be some environmental issues that could effect recreation they should be brought up and addressed by the dozen or so State, Federal and Local entities that are tasked for it and not added to yet another department of redundancy department.