Widespread opposition to sprawl caused developers John and

Widespread opposition to sprawl caused developers John and Leslye Wuerfel to cancel plans for building a 4,000-seat minor-league baseball park on 45 acres of farmland in Elmwood Township, near Traverse City, Michigan. “I think if you’re going to have a stadium, it should be in the urban center, and not out on the fringe,” Russ Soyring, planning director of Traverse City, said during the months-long controversy. The Michigan Land Use Institute opposed the outlying location.