The school would like to build soccer fields, softball fields and a football stadium on roughly 25 acres and share the facilities with the public. Ament said he would support leasing the land to the college for that purpose and would also support the plan by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District to use some of the land for large retention ponds for flood control. In some ways, Ament and the others really aren't all that far apart. In effect, they all want to keep the land south of Swan Blvd. It's a question of degree.
Ament asks whether most people consider athletic fields development.
They probably think a college football stadium is. The best way to do that may be for Ament and supervisors to continue to work on some sort of compromise. In the meantime, they should lobby for the 110 acres north of Swan Blvd. to be declared a state forest. Appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on March 20, 2001. Recipients should seek permission to reprint the article from the source listed above.