A Norfolk couple who has transformed a former tobacco research station near Delhi into transitional housing for immigrants, refugees and low-income families is asking for some planning changes to make the operation permanent.

Norfolk County approved an application in 2022 from Mike and Sandy Kloepfer, owners Titan Trailers, a manufacturer of custom transport trailers in Delhi, to operate on a temporary basis. The pilot program was created in response to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine.

Speaking at a public hearing committee meeting on Wednesday, the Kloepfers’ agent, Eldon Darbyson, director of planning at G. Douglas Vallee Limited, said the couple have invested more than $1 million into the conversion of the former research station, at 711 Schafer Side Road near Courtland, into apart

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