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BY GEORGE BLACKWOOD
Special to The Jewish News
A possibld shift of the 1-696
freeway to avoid an
environmentally sensitive wet-
land area in Southfield near
Lincoln and Greenfield could
endanger Yeshivath Beth
Yehudah schools and 18 apart-
ment complexes in Southfield
and Oak Park.
But that's the only possible
alternative if the Michigan De-
partment of Natural Resources-
refuses to allow present con-
struction plans through 2.3
acres of the 13-acre wetland
area west of Greenfield in
Southfield, said Winston Steb-
bins of the Michigan Depart-
ment of Transportation.
Stebbins made the remarks
Monday night at a public hear-
ing held by the DNR in the
Southfield Civic Center.
Several environmental groups
asked for the hearing under the
Michigan Wetlands Protection
Act. Wetlands are considered
important by those groups since
they purify groundwater and act
as refuge for birds, reptiles and
small mammals.
Residents living adjacent to
the area joined spokespersons
for the East Michigan
Environmental Action Council,
Audubon Society, Sierra Club,
Wildeiness Society and other
groups in testifying that the
present freeway route would
cause "irreparable damage" to
the wetland area.
.City officials from Oak Park
and Southfield, however, tes-
tified that moving the freeway
would cause even more serious
damage.
Frank Burns, a spokesman for
Southfield, questioned whether
or not the area is in fact a "wet-
land."
"But even if it is," he said,
"the impact of moving the free-
way to avoid the so-called wet-
land is so severe it should not be
seriously considered."
The Oak Park and Southfield
city councils have gone on re-
cord in support of the present
route through the wetland. The
Oak Park City Council's support
was unanimous. At an Oct. 7
Southfield Council meeting, only
Councilwoman Barbara E. Tal-
ley opposed a resolution support-
ing the presentfionte.
The Southfield City Council
also urged the DNR not to re-
duce the "size of the pedestrian
walkw67 and park over 1-696
which are specifically designed
to serve the Sabbath require-
ments of local residents."
Oak Park City Manager
Aaron Marsh asked the DNR "to
balance the fate of a chimney
crawfish and puffer garter snake
against the occupants of 18
apartment buildings."
"Those buildings house many
elderly and medium-to
moderate-income renters. Where
would they go? The Oak Park
and Southfield area is already
short on housing."
Marsh said past delays in
freeway construction have al-
ready cost Oak Park $516,000
through inflation and the city
has lost 195 parcels of property
through acquisition at a loss in
assessed valuation of
$2,761,885.
"If the freeway is shifted, the
potential condemnation of a
Jewish school is particularly up-
setting," Marsh ;said. "Delays
"Balance the fate of
a chimney crawfish
and puffer garter
snake against the
occupants of 18
apartment
buildings."
and disruptions to freeway con-
, struction are a waste of tax-
payers' money," he added.
Environmentalists, however,
saw it differently.
Robert Newcombe, of the
DNR's endangered species di-
vision, favored relocating the
freeway since "buildings can be
built by man; wetlands cannot."
And Peggy Johnson, executive
secretary of the Clinton River
Watershed Council, suggested
moving the freeway to avoid the
wetland and applying for a fed-
eral grant to acquire more land
to relocate displaced residents.
"The wealth of beauty and se-
renity in the wetland area
should be preserved," said
Nancy Blumenthal, who lives
adjacent to the wetland on
Southwood Drive.
"I'm speaking for my friends,
the racoons, chimney, crayfish
and others who can not speak,"
she added.
Virgil Bilderback; of the Utica
Wilderness Society, quoted 20th
Century humorist Will Rogers
in urging that natural resources
be preserved "because they're
not making them anymore."
Bob Pacific, an ecological field
supervisor with the U.S. De-
partment of the Interior, said
the wetland in question "is a
valuable feeding, nesting and
resting area for a wide range of.
animals — it's one of the last
remaining areas of this type."
He predicted the freeway's
present route would "destroy a
four-acre wildlife area by drain-
ing , the water from the wet-
land."
"Seventy percent of Michi-
gan's wetlands have already
been destroyed and this area
should be preserved," he said to
loud applause from the aUdience
of about 100 people.
Rabbi Nachman. Kahn, ad-
ministrator of the yeshivah, told
The Jewish News that he would
prefer not to comment on this
issue because "we really have to
study the matter. 'At this point I
really don't' know what to say."
The DNR's decision is ex-
pected in 60 to 90 days.