re: #357 RogueOne

I came back because on my way home I drove by my folks house and there is an open lot down the street that is the perfect example for what I’m saying. 7 years or so a church bought the open lot with the plan of putting up a church. It’s obviously within the city code for that type of structure (there’s a church less than 1/4 mile down the road) but their parking lot would have butted up against the backyards of a nice subdivision. The church ended up being denied a permit because the people in the area didn’t want to have to deal with a church and the associated traffic and noise on a Sunday morning and they expressed that during the public hearing. They already have a big high school down the street and they didn’t want to deal with that kind of mess 6 out of 7 days of the week. Now, does that make the neighborhood a bigoted area? Was the church denied its first amendment rights? Of course not.

That happens all the time. It happened in my neighbor too. For us, it was a closed church that was going to be bought by a charter school. Our community is small and there is no way we can support the kind of traffic created by the school without making our lives miserable. We marched on city hall and we won.

In the end, I say it’s in the hands of the NYers. Not that we can’t have an opinion, but whatever they ultimately decide we should all accept.