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Article: Support for open space thrives in Fremont Twp.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- March 10, 2002
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Byline: Russell Lissau Daily Herald Staff Writer
A push to create an open-space preservation district in Fremont Township has been a grass-roots effort from the day it was proposed.
It was a group of area residents who - during a town hall meeting in April 2001 - came up with the idea to buy farmland, fields and other open space to stop out-of-control development in the mostly rural township.
And it's primarily been residents who have lobbied for the $10 million project since then, spending many hours working on the plan and then promoting it in the community.
The support isn't as strong, however, when it comes to the four people who ...