![]() LaVanway said the Township ordinance prohibiting stations within 300 feet of wellhead protection areas was outdated “due to the improvement in safety regulation for gasoline stations, and that this creates a hardship on the owner…”. The proposal was originally rejected by the township’s Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) in 2021 despite Lekander, with support from Brent LaVanway with Boss Engineering, speaking about the safety of the modern gas tanks and pumping system that he planned to use at the location. If they (the ordinances) say no gas, it should be no gas station.”Ī request for comment on the plan was sent to Township Supervisor Mike Coddington, but was not returned. So he wants one every so many miles apart. I mean, he’s got one down at Fowlerville Road and Mason, and he’s got one there at D-19 and Mason. ![]() “And once you open Pandora’s Box for this gas station, well then (Lekander) is going to want to go to the other end of this well protection site and put another gas station. “It’s what the Wellhead Protection Area was created for,” he said. However, the current township ordinance prohibits such a use within 300 feet of such an area.ĭuane Cox lives on Groveland Drive, near where the station would be built and tells GIGO News, he is adamantly opposed to allowing it for fear of potential contamination of residents drinking water. Those areas are defined by the Environmental Protection Agency as “the surface and subsurface area surrounding a water well or wellfield, supplying a public water system, through which contaminants are reasonably likely to move toward and reach such water well or wellfield.” Todd Lekander of Howell Mason LLC, owner and operator of the Mugg & Bopp chain of gas station/convenience stores in Livingston County, is requesting to construct a Mugg & Bopps station at the corner of Mason and Burkhardt roads, which is within a wellhead protection area. ![]() A public hearing is reportedly set later this month on a request for a special use permit to allow a gas station and car wash to be built in Howell Township within a wellhead protection area, with at least one resident determined to try and stop it. ![]()
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