KALAMAZOO (WKZO) — Protesters will demonstrate against WMU’s plans to expand the BTR park onto the Colony Farm Orchard this afternoon.
The University is calling it BTR 2.0 and opponents will be picketing for many of the same reasons that protestors opposed the original BTR Park,
because its so close to the Asylum Lake Preserve. This new parcel is right across the street and shares a creek.
When the Orchard was originally given to WMU, it was with a deed restriction that it never be commercially developed. WMU Vice President Bob Miller says that restriction was lifted by the legislature 5 years ago.
The first of what could be many protests will be staged Friday afternoon at 5 p.m. at the Asylum Lake Parking lot on Drake Road.
