LAKETOWN TWP, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Mar. 17, 2023) – The fate of an aging house in a Laketown Township park will be decided in six months after a controversial decision on Wednesday, March 15.
The Laketown Township Parks and Recreation Commission voted 3-2 to hand over the future of the house at the Huyser Farm Park to the township’s building authority after receiving a report on the structural integrity of the house built in 1939.
The parks commission has debated for more than 20 years what to do with the house which has sat empty even before the township acquired it in 2001. The commission still has not determined a use for the house.
The decision gives the building authority six months to decide what to do with the house or the house will be recommended for demolition. The building authority’s recommendation will go to the township board, not the parks commission. The township board will have final say on funding and the fate of the structure.
A committee to come up with ideas with possible solutions to save the house was formed in the past. They came to the conclusion that it would be to costly to repair being neglected and vandalized for twenty years it should be taken down and removed. The land was donated to the township to be in a park. The house was not mentioned. There is no historical value to the building other than it’s age.