Representative Schuette: DNR cost shift impacting local property owners

LANSING

Legislation from State Representative Bill G. Schuette providing fairness for property owners in Midland and Gladwin counties and across the state was advanced today in overwhelming, bipartisan fashion by the Michigan House.

Currently, state lands like those owned by the Department of Natural Resources are exempt from special assessments, such as drain assessments, unless noted otherwise. Th…