Superior Offers Gravel Permit Tips BY SANDY LENDER
30 // AUGUST 2021
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Jeff Kresnak’s three-year trial ended successfully May 5, 2015, when the Danby Township Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve his company’s special use permit request. That’s not an everyday occurrence for would-be stone, sand and gravel providers. Here’s how the president of Superior Asphalt Inc., Grand Rapids, Michigan, garnered a special use permit to operate a gravel pit on a 243-acre site south of Portland, Michigan. First, Kresnak shared that the planning commission spent over 14 months reviewing and studying the proposal his team had submitted. Of course, there were opponents, and Kresnak said one fellow in Portland
