A hearing has been set next month to determine the fate of a proposed boathouse that would replace one that for well over a century captured the eye of camera buffs perched upon the Lake Leelanau Narrows bridge.
To gain approval, though, the project needs to rewrite recent history. A permit application to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) was denied nearly a year to the date of its appeal hearing. That appeal will be heard remotely on Jan. 14 to 17 by the Michigan Office of Administrative Hearings and Rules (MOAHR).
“This was part of an agreement that was settled on by the Leelanau Conservancy and the (Lake Leelanau) Lake Association years ago to stop a development in the Narrows” said Tim Cypher, spokesperson for the McGlynn Cypher Trust, which bought the property in 2010.
