Supervisor Rick Bottcher.
Board shoots down supervisor's bid for a moratorium.
Shelby Township, the region's fourth fastest-growing community in Metro Detroit, is feeling the strain on services caused by a development boom as Metro Detroiters expand into communities once considered rural. Joe Karle, a Shelby Township resident, sees the growth each time he ventures onto roads such as Schoenherr. Bottcher's proposed solution was a moratorium on development. Bottcher's proposal was shot down. Equally damaging to Bottcher's plan was township legal counsel Paul O'Reilly's argument that a moratorium was too broad of a constraint.