KALAMAZOO, Mich. — There’s another spark in the years-long fight over land off Stadium Drive and Drake Road in Kalamazoo, after Drive and Shine Car Wash put in a request to build next to a major nature preserve.
Advocates call the Asylum Lake Nature Preserve on South Drake Road a treasure of Kalamazoo.
They say it’s invaluable for recreation, research and ecological protection, but believe all of that could go away if nearby land becomes a commercial zone rather than a residential one…