“I am asking for the annexation so that we can do the higher development in there and incorporate it into the village. I think it’s a benefit.”
Martin Peterson is executor of his parents’ estate, who wanted their Sparta Township farmland annexed to the Village of Sparta, a move expanding the village allowing for light industrial and housing development.
Sparta Township Clerk Marcy Savage was not opposed to the development but felt a land transfer contract between the township and village should be in place, allowing for shared tax revenues…