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Article: Crown Hill showdown looming
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- Indianapolis Business Journal
- Article date:
- March 19, 2007
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On the Web site of Crown Hill Cemetery, in an educational section aimed at schoolchildren, an article called "The Nature of Crown Hill" laments man's alteration of the natural landscape.
Then it offers some advice to visitors of the nation's third-largest private cemetery: "A walk through the cemetery is a good time to pause and realize that the head of man must sometimes restrain the hand of man if we are going to have any places of natural nature left."
The statement seems prescient as debate rages over a developer's plan to buy 71 acres of woods and wetlands on the cemetery's northern edge for a retail-andresidential project-an issue that will come to a head this week when the ...