A public hearing for the application of a special use permit to operate a Youth for Christ (YFC) program club center in Leland was cancelled on Wednesday due to room capacity.
The public hearing, typically held at Leland Township Library’s Munnecke room, has a room capacity limit of 100. With well over a 100 people in attendance, the planning commission chair, Ross Satterwhite, made an announcement at the beginning of the meeting letting the public know that the hearing would have to be rescheduled to a later date as well to a larger venue, most likely Leland Public School. The new date and venue has yet to be confirmed.
The special use permit application submitted by Apollos Properties, LLC., is to use a portion of the north side of the building, located at 110 N Lake Street, which was anticipated to be used as a YFC club center starting this month. The north building, one of two commercial buildings on the property, is approx- imately 2,470 square feet, and falls in the C-1 village commercial zoning district, a zone established for small scale businesses and retail establishments. As stated in the special land use permit application, the tenant, YFC, would operate its county-wide program under a five-year lease.
