OLIVE TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – An effort to acquire even more land by the Ottawa County Parks and Recreation Department has been given a green light.
The County Board yesterday approved a resolution allowing the department to submit a 4.2 million-dollar request to the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund for acquiring the Ottawa Sand property. It’s 353 acres in both Grand Haven and Ferrysburg that includes an inland lake and extensive frontage along the Grand River, and the Parks department wants to incorporate that into surrounding “high quality park sites” that would create a 24-hundred-acre coastal green infrastructure corridor, with a long-distance hiking trail, extending from the north pier in Grand Haven to PJ Hoffmaster State Park. A similar 4.2 million-dollar grant was recommended by the Fund last year for state legislative approval, and this request, which must be submitted by April 1st, will be considered by the board at its annual meeting in November.
Ottawa County currently lists a total of 38 parks and open space land on its website.
