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This 24/7 facility could see arrival/departure of 200 trucks and 200 cars daily, has fuel pumps for 5 trucks, 12 cars and 2 RVs. It would allow parking for 81 trucks, 95 cars and 11 RVs. Its 10,000 sq.ft. structure would house a 145-seat restaurant, convenience store, drivers' lounge, showers and self-serve laundry.

A photo album of the landscape and adjacent homes/businesses that will suffer and perhaps vanish if Flying J builds a truck plaza at Exit 41.

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The site Flying J wants to turn into a truck stop...12 acres of partially wooded land across the Blue Star from the Belvedere Inn, at the corner of 63rd Street.

Hidden behind a perimeter of low trees, rows of blueberry bushes stand as a silent reminder of this site's earlier life.

Site as viewed from 136th Ave. at the curve joining 63rd St., a quiet scene prized by homeowners living in that location.

Aerial photo of the proposed Flying J site, marked to show the course of a natural stream that drains surface water from adjacent properties, flows across the truck plaza site and beneath the Blue Star to feed wetland ponds occupying the exact spot where Flying J's runoff detention basin is to be built.

Back-to-back views from the radio tower access road that bisects the wetland pond, one looking southeast and one looking northwest, prove that wetlands are in danger from plans to build the detention basin.

Laketown Township Planning Commission Meetings
First Wednesday every month, 7pm

Laketown Township Hall
4338 Beeline Rd.
South of 144th Ave. & 62nd St.
616-335-3050
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