Detroit woman says Solar Park near Coleman A. Young International Airport is forcing her to relocate

DETROIT – Hazel Walker has lived at her home here on Lyford Avenue near French Road and Van Dyke Avenue in the shadow of Coleman A. Young International Airport in Detroit for nearly 50 years.

Walker has seen almost everything in this neighborhood.

On Wednesday (Feb. 25), what she sees outside her front door every day is the construction of a massive 42-acre solar park that is part of the city’s solar neighborhood initiative, which has begun to make parts of her block inaccessible…

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