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Panel looking at marketing village to boost residency
With a pair of renewable energy companies planning to relocate to the Ford Motor Co.’s former Wixom plant to revitalize the manufacturing sector and create thousands of green jobs, and falling real estate prices, Wolverine Lake officials are seizing the opportunity to solicit new residents by underscoring the village’s attributes.
The Village Council has formed an ad hoc Real Estate Outreach Committee, comprised of Village Council President John Magee; Councilman Brian Nedrow; former councilman Ron Cumbo; village resident Ginger Nickloy; and four Realtors in the community to brainstorm ideas and put the concept into action.
“We looked at villagewide issues, including declining real estate prices and stagnant sales, but also saw an opportunity to turn those around because of renewable energy jobs,” Magee said. “We feel we need to do a better job of explaining the advantages of living in the village and that it’s a great place to live.”
The Village Council allocated an initial budget of $1,000 for the effort, with a portion doled out for printed materials that Realtors in neighboring communities can distribute.
“This will be given to Realtors in an effort to promote the village so as to entice people to move here,” Nedrow said.
The remaining dollars will be used to hold an open house complete with a video lake tour for Realtors who may be selling homes in the village.
The open house will be held on Thursday, Feb. 17 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and includes lunch.
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Tommy T
February 3, 2011 at 5:50 pm
“Advantages of living in the Village and that it’s a great place to live”……. Where do we start poking holes in this one…..
1. Higher / double taxes than surrounding areas since residents receive tax bills not only from the Village, but also Commerce Township for the exact same services.
2. Recent string of increased taxes.. WAIT… These weren’t taxes, but “tax diversions” in the form of “fee increases” tacked onto quarterly water bills to fund the villages OWN police department (that was subsequently partially dissolved and then merged with the Walled Lake Department to save money… That was never rescinded after all the “savings” were put into place.)
3. A “garbage collection fee” so the council could pull the ‘ol “rope a dope” and whack citizens with some “ohh were so broke and don’t have the money in the general fund any more to pay for this ervice”, then amazingly found themselves with a BUDGET SURPLUS from the GENERAL FUND in which to piss down the drain on a whole host of new pet projects.
4. 30,000 gallons of raw sewage dummped into the lake after a pump gets clogged up. (not the 1st nor the last time this will happen!!)
5. A lake so polluted with industrial waste, sewage from lake front residents who bypass their septic tanks, fertilizers and carcinogens from the Greenaway Drain that it’s laughable.
6. Crime rates that are waaaay up, while the number of officers patroling the roads is waaayyy down and poised to decrease even more.
7. S.A.D. that FORCES residents for an astonomical fee to hook into a flawed water and sewer system should your septic system fail. (Village can’t tax ya for a septic field, so what a better way to “stick it” to the residents than to tax them on their own SH#T !)
8. Swimmers Itch !!
9. Polluted city wells.
10. Directly next to one of the worst stretches of road in the county. (Pontiac Tr and Maple)
11. An increasingly changing racial dynamic in the area of which has directly affected crime in the area and childrens safety at local schools. (Ever set foot in Walled Lake Western lately…. Looks more like Pontiac by the day.)
12. Rapidly declining home values. (most homes by 50% in the past 4 years alone)
13. It’s own version of “The Projects” in the section 8 apartments there off S. Commerce.
If anything the Village has quite the tax and image problem that regardless of how much or what color of “Lipstick You Try To Paint on THE PIG……. It’s still a PIG” !