Both the Leighton and Wayland Township Planning Commissions will have busy public hearings Wednesday evening, April 11.
Leighton will have three public hearings at its meeting, which will get under way at 7 p.m. at the township hall. Wayland had just one, but it will be about a proposed residential complex just south of the city limits off 10th Street, getting under way at 6:30 p.m.
One Leighton hearing will be on a request by Timsed Holdings LLC to establish and operate an auto sales business at 4426 Division Ave. The site is the location of the former Chemical Bank branch, which closed last year, and there already are several unlicensed vehicles parked there.
A request from Stephen Ausra to operate an agricultural tractor, vehicle and equipment sales and service business within the township.
Also on the agenda is a request from Why Knott Ventures, LLC, owner of an unaddressed parcel on the north side of Dahlia Street between Mill and Garden Streets, for a private road and 21-unit site condominium.
The Wayland Township Planning Commission already has recommended a rezoning for to the Township Board a proposed housing development of single-family homes for the site that formerly was supposed to become the new home of New Life Church. However, the preliminary plat public hearing resulting in the request being tabled until an updated drawing and some concerns/conditions could be met, including lot sizes/frontages and sidewalks.
New Life was interested n the property for some time, but decided instead to locate in downtown Wayland next to Bentley Party Store, across the street from Pine Street Elementary.
COVER PHOTO: Leighton Planning Commission will be asked to approve an auto sales business at the former Chemical Bank site.

