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Committee backs $700,000 trail restoration and $4 million operations agreement for Clinton River Oaks park
Summary
The committee approved county contributions to repair two washouts on the Clinton River Trail, and a 20‑year operations and management agreement with Rochester/Rochester Hills that will create a 275‑acre Oakland County park called Clinton River Oaks; vote recorded 6 yays, 1 nay.
The Governmental Operations Committee voted to approve two related park actions that together will repair a damaged stretch of the Clinton River Trail and create a new Oakland County park along the Clinton River.
The first vote authorized a $700,000 park development agreement with the City of Rochester to close final funding gaps for repairs to two catastrophic washouts on the Clinton River Trail, at a location that connects several cross‑state trail systems. Park staff described the larger restoration as a multi‑partner project supported by the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation and the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan; county staff said the county contribution completes the local funding package required to proceed.
The second action approves…
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