As far as motivation is concerned, the Lakeshore Town Council has plenty. There are jobs at stake for an area that has been rather dependent on the auto industry, and other industries, in Detroit for employment, and has found itself rather economically depressed for a few years now because of those industries' difficulties in the recent past, as well as Detroit's overall economically-disasterous situation. Even if CEN Biotech only hired 20 people, that's 20 people able to pay taxes and provide material needs for 20 families, as well as the taxes that CEN itself would pay out locally. Furthermore, your assertion that the site is not permitted electricity in its current zone category is purely speculation, and is more repetition of an argument from naysayers that has been surfacing here for a while now without any proof. I would direct you to the Minutes from the Council Meeting on Nov. 12, 2012, in which Mr. Salmons submitted notification of CEN Biotech's plans in Lakeshore to the Mayor and Council Members, in which he clearly states that "[t]he site is zoned 'Agricultural Use- Value Added' that provides an accessory use for processing and refining agricultural product to a final retail product." How could the processing and refining of any product, as provided by the zone bylaw, occur without electricity or running water. It's about time to put that particular argument to rest, as it beyond ridiculous.
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