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An independent, nonprofit organization that conducts research and works with policy makers and citizens to help foster a new approach to economic development that respects the land, the community that inhabits the land, and the inherent process of change.

STAFF KEITH SCHNEIDER Executive Director HANS VOSS Managing Director FLORENCE BARONE Editorial Director LECLAIR STOLTMANN Publications Coordinator ARLIN WASSERMAN Policy Specialist PATTY CANTRELL Economic Analyst ANNE STANTON Managing Editor ALICIA HARRISON Office Manager Member Services Coordinator DEB NEGRI JACKSON Office Assistant PART-TIME SUPPORT JOHANNA MILLER Program Assistant SASKIA VAN WOLFEREN MATT SZYMANSKI BRYCE ROSKAMP Computer Services BOARD OF DIRECTORS R.T. CURRAN Chair DEBORAH J. ROHE Secretary RICHARD J. HITCHINGHAM Treasurer GARY APPEL PRESTON V. DILTS JR., M.D. JAMES C. GANTER PATRICK M. MCCOOL VIRGINIA B. PIERCE KEITH SCHNEIDER BOB SUTHERLAND GENERAL COUNSEL JAMES M. OLSON JOHN D. NOONAN MAGAZINE TEAM FLORENCE BARONE Content Editor LECLAIR STOLTMANN Production Manager/Layout KEITHSCHNEIDER Senior Writer ANNE STANTON Managing Editor/Promotion HANS VOSS CURT GUYETTE DIANE CONNERS Contributing Writers ARLIN WASSERMAN Researcher AIMÉ MERIZON Proofreader BARBARA HODGE Cover Design   Michigan Land Use Institute P.O. Box 228 845 Michigan Avenue, Benzonia, MI 49616 Telephone: 616/882-4723 Fax: 616/882-7350 email: info@mlui.org Printed on recycled paper using low-VOC soybean oil inks. Please recycle.

Summer/Fall 1998 * Volume 3, Number 3

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Offering in-depth reporting and reasoned analysis about Michigan's land use issues to inspire citizens to become more involved in designing their own communities. Lansing's Environmental Record in the '90s Tipping the Balance ... 7, 8 Heading Into the 90s – A Legislative Timeline ... 9-13 A Nonpartisan Assessment ... 14 The DNR/DEQ Split: "Cost-Saving" Measure Costs Millions ... 15, 16 DNR/DEQ Case Study #1: Power Struggle Exposed ... 16 DNR/DEQ Case Study #2: Golf Course Construction Washout Pollutes Trout Stream... 17 DNR/DEQ Case Study #3: DEQ May Breach Legal Agreement; DNR Says State Should Stand Firm ... 18 Citizen Participation: State Closes the Door ... 19-21 DEQ and Chemical Companies ThisClose ... 22 Leaders From a Different Era Return to Advocacy ... 22 Property Rights: Movement Losing Steam ... 23 Oil & Gas Development: Grassroots Organizing Sparks Reform ... 24, 25 Special Interests Get a High Return for Dollars Invested in Lansing ... 26 Public Lands & Timber Management: To Hold in Trust or Put Up for Sale? ... 27 2,800 Acres of Pere Marquette Forest On the Auction Block ... 28 Large Parcel of AuSable Forest May be Sold for Industrial/Commercial Use ... 29 Lawmakers Intensify Logging on Public Lands ... 30 Urban Sprawl: Lansing Takes Hands-Off Approach... 31, 32 Detroit Neighborhoods Work to Shake Toxic Burden ... 33, 34 Toxics Policy: "Sound Science" or the Science of Politics? ... 35, 36 Polluter Payday & What Happened to Michigan's Recycling Program? ... 37 "Clean Michigan" Bond Raises Issue of Polluter Accountability ... 38 Michigan's Oil and Gas Debate The Michigan Land Use Institute began in 1994 as the Manistee County Land Use Coalition to address the pace and scale of Antrim Shale gas development in rural northern Michigan. MCLUC's acronym was pronounced "muk-luk," as in the soft-soled moccasin that steps lightly and respectfully on the earth. The MCLUC Reporter has been incorporated into the Great Lakes Bulletin as an ongoing special section. Legislature Passes Energy Reform Bills ... 39, 40 Sweeping Watershed Protection Bill Pending in House ... 41 Gas Wells Move Closer to Torch Lake ... 42 New Emergency Response Rules Proposed for Poison Gas Accidents ... 43 Great Lakes Coastal Drilling On Hold, For Now ... 44 Departments Letters to the Institute ... 3 Community by Design Historic Boat is Tourism Gold Mine ... 4 Crystal Lake Residents Prefer Beach to DNR Boat Launch ... 5 Golf Course Erosion into Lake Michigan Was Preventable ... 6 Institute News The Bulletin Board: What's Your Elected Official's Voting Record? & How Candidates for the Governorship of Michigan Responded to Our Questions ... 45 The Institute's New Economic Analyst and New Managing Editor for Publications ... 46 The Institute's New Managing Director ... 47 Institute Gaining National Attention ... 47 Summer Events Pictorial ... 48, 49 New & Renewed Members • New Grants • Membership Application ... 50. 51 Publication of the Great Lakes Bulletin is supported by grants from the Frey Foundation, the Alpern Foundation, the C.S. Mott Foundation, and the Michigan Environmental Council. Opinions:Signed articles and letters represent the positions of the authors and not necessarily those of the Michigan Land Use Institute. Membership:Basic membership in the Michigan Land Use Institute is $25 per year. Membership options also are available for low-income households. A subscription to the Great Lakes Bulletin is included as a benefit of membership. Articles & Letters:Submissions are welcome and may be excerpted due to space limitations. Corrections:The Great Lakes Bulletin strives to maintain the highest journalistic standards and every effort is made to ensure accuracy. Readers are encouraged to bring any errors of fact to our attention. Corrections will be published in the following issue.Reprints:Copyright © 1998. All rights reserved. Please contact the Michigan Land Use Institute for permission to reprint or otherwise distribute articles, in full or in part, from this magazine.