Seeking to divest the land and have it declared sellable residential property - and claiming turning it into parkland would be a privacy concern for neighboring residents due to a lack of space between homes - the Board of Trustees hired Huth to work through the legal process.Īccording to Huth, the first part of this process is notifying residents in the area that an amendment to the plat is being considered and allowing them an opportunity to voice their opinion on the matter. It’s just not a reasonable piece of property to hang on to.” “And we also have a couple of different neighbors in that neighborhood that use it for their own storage area - which is really a violation, so now you’re into enforcing things. “We’re paying over $2,000 a year to mow the lawn and there’s some trees on the one lot we’ve had to pay before to trim or take branches down,” Verkest said. Some of these landings house utility access points or serve other municipal functions, but the Harrison Park Landing is little more than a money pit according to Verkest. Given the need to use the river for essential transportation as well as recreational water use, strips of land about 100-feet wide and 300-400 feet deep were set up along the Clinton River when neighborhoods were built. “Who would want a piece of land if they couldn’t access the river?” “When land was platted so it could be resold, it was common back at that time to provide access to the river because there was this notion that there was this universal need for access to water,” Verkest said. Township Supervisor Ken Verkest said the strip was given to the township when the Harrison Park neighborhood was built. HARRISON TOWNSHIP - Old, flat, unused and expensive: so says the Harrison Township Board of Trustees about a strip of land the township owns.Īt the March 27 board meeting, trustees voted to hire the services of attorney Robert Huth to help work through the process of abandoning the Harrison Park Landing, a stretch of land between South River Road and Riverside Bay Court and parallel to the northern end of Emerick Road Park.
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