Council Action Clears Way for Voters to Decide Park’s Future
With little discussion and no public controversy, the Dexter City Council on June 8 approved two resolutions that may ultimately settle one of the city’s longest-running land-use disputes.
The council first voted to vacate portions of Main Street and Central Street right-of-way within Monument Park, then approved ballot language asking voters whether the property should be dedicated as parkland in perpetuity.
The actions were procedural, but their significance reaches back more than three decades to a bitter debate over whether a road should be built through what is now considered the heart of downtown Dexter…