Those are the things the park can't do itself. With the group's help, the park wrote exact plans for preserving 98 of its buildings. The partners would be responsible for rehabilitating any building leased to them as well as maintaining the building. The new plans don't resolve the ongoing conflict over so-called inholders, people who still live in the park on leases granted by the Park Service when the park was formed more than 25 years ago. Thirteen inholders who were slated to move in 1997 and 1998 have refused to leave, and say they can stay as long as the park has a backlog of non-historic buildings it intends to demolish.
Rangers dispute the families' claims and say there is no backlog of buildings to be demolished.
If these people weren't still in their homes, we would have removed them. The eviction matter remains in litigation in federal court, Herd said. The Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved.