Asylum Lake Preservation Plans Meeting to Oppose BTR Expansion past Parkview

KALAMAZOO -- It's not the first time a public battle has been waged in Kalamazoo over the Colony Farm Orchard, and it looks like there may be another.  In fact preservationaists thought they had won this battle when WMU promised not to go beyond Parkview Avenue in the agreement that allowed creation of the BTR Park.

Now legislation has cleared the State House and is in the State Senate that would lift a deed restriction on the Colony Farm Orchard that it be preserved as open space.

WMU wants to extend the Business park, and Amy Deshon, President of the Asylum Lake Preservation Assoc., says they are rallying to oppose it.

They plan a meeting tonight at the Main Library Downtown at 6:30.