Thank you Glen Arbor Sun for this article on Michael Huey. I gather his sense of loss comes from what became of the stunning property that his family owned. To me the development of the Homestead was and continues to be a horrific act. It destroyed the wilderness of the area – exactly what the Park Service was, in principal, trying to preserve and protect. How it came to be that the Park Service did not include more of the Homestead property is a mystery to me and a travesty. I don’t know Bob Kuras but he has shown a greed-fueled disregard for the natural beauty of Sleeping Bear Bay that he and his associates cannot contain. And the Homestead continues to desecrate the area with ever more development and the dispersal of human waste onto the land – I remember first walking into the meadows of “raining Homestead crap” to my shock and horror several decades ago. With the lack or absence of sufficient infrastructure to deal with the human waste that has come to the Homestead and Glen Arbor (thank you Glen Arbor Township Commissions of the past) I believe that it is just a matter of time before we are swimming in human waste contaminated waters – the waters that include Sleeping Bear Bay and Glen Lake that we all love and treasure. Obviously, this already happens on a weekly basis in Traverse City. I call on the Homestead to stop any further development and donate their remaining lands to the Leelanau Nature Conservancy or other entities that will preserve and protect it. I also call on Glen Arbor Township to begin in earnest the process putting into place a responsible and forward-looking plan for an infrastructure to meet the demands of the ever increasing flow of humans and their waste in Glen Arbor, the Homestead and surrounding areas.
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