 The county seat was until recently the unincorporated community of Leland.On August 3, 2004, county voters approved a proposal to move the county seat to Suttons Bay, closer to the county's geographic center.In 2008, the county offices completed their move to a new government center built on 45 acres (180,000 m²) of county-owned land, one mile east of the unincorporated village of Lake Leelanau, where a new county law enforcement center was completed.