A convenient new definition

To the editor:

The Planning Commission’s denial of the Youth for Christ permit raises an obvious question: if Leland’s zoning code clearly meant that a “club” in the C-1 district only refers to something like a music, comedy, or dining club, why did it take six months to say so?

That explanation seems to have arrived very late in the process, after multiple legal opinions had already concluded that Youth for Christ qualified as a club under the ordinance, including one from Township counsel and an initial analysis from the outside attorney later engaged by the commission.