Save Jean Klock Park--www.protectjkp.com

Donate to: www.protectjkp.com for the federal lawsuit to Protect Jean Klock Park.

The effort to bring this park back to its former beauty and in public ownership is now in federal court, Weiss v. Salazar, first filed in 2008 and now on appeal at the U.S. Court of Appeals. See www.protectjkp.com for details.
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[savetheparks]

What study was that?

What park study board? There is no park study board in Benton Harbor, electraman.

[savetheparks]

Viewers should keep in mind that many residents of Benton Harbor call Jean Klock Park "the beach." They are referring to the threat to the entire park, not just the beach sand. The Harbor Shores proposal would put hundreds of cars onto the beach itself, in new parking lots and roads right in view of bathers, boaters and other park users. It would mar the beauty of the lakefront forever. In no way does the plan come close to restoring the original beautiful historic brick, tree-lined drive.

[peepawcraig]

I was born in Benton Harbor on Broadway 1951. The rich try to take away from the poor to benifit their selfs.If you try to fill in some swamp on your property DNR won't let you but Whirlpool can do anything they want. This was planed when they closed their plant and put us out of work.If this go'es through you will see condos or the hotel they said they we're putting on the site where the factory was.Put in factory jobs in Benton Harbor instead of a play ground for the rich.

[foxolita]

i knew polly clock, daughter of jean klock. when they told the peoplethat the park was theirs, it was a different set of people. BH was a beautiful little lakeside town. now it is the biggest ghetto in michigan sans detroit. i owned several houses on terriorial, city fathers homes, historic. we were run out and the houses trashed. 1 woman actually came to my door and said 'white man what you doin here'? she didn't care that my family had helped make the town crackheads and welfare cheats hicrime

[billhuston]

Wow, best of luck fighting a modern-day Enclosure of the Commons.

(this is an ancient scheme at the heart of almost all profit-making enterprises)

[rjohn23]

If the community is not improved, then the rest of the area will end up like Benton Harlem. Worry about cleaning up the rest of your crap hole community, just not a beach that you don't use.

[electraman7]

There was a study done in 2006 by a park study board revealed that there were an average of 47 cars per month in the parking lot..... Its unused, but valuable.

[beatricekelsey]

The park has been purposely mismanaged in order to justify the recent sales for luxury residential development and the current proposal to use it for a golf course. Odd that the state would approve yet another grant circa 2000 for the new pavilion and that it would be booked every weekend of the season if the park is such a forgotten, forlorn dump, eh? The City ultimately is to be dismembered, once every cent has been extracted for the benefit of people living anywhere but ...

[Stilnovisti]

Wrtie your state rep and demand that this attempt to take this beach from the people of Benton Harbor end now! This is wrong. I grew up in South Bend, IN and have many memories of Jean Klock Park. Still today it is a beautiful place. Corporations and their jobs come and go (Studebakers?) but nature endures - if we take care!

Stilnovisti

[blightly]

Governor Jennifer M. Granholm

P.O. Box 30013

Lansing, Michigan 48909

PHONE: (517) 373-3400

PHONE: (517) 335-7858 - Constituent Services