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Town and Church
It's not true that there’s always more than meets the eye. Sometimes there’s less.
That appears to be the case with the Town Council's action earlier this month in adopting a resolution to work in cooperation with anyone who wants to alter his property.
Intended as a message to Trinity Episcopal Church that the council is prepared to deal w ith the church in order to help it remain in town, the resolution was amended to apply to any church or business, then finally to "anybody.”
As Mayor Stewart Willis pointed out the council is constrained by its ordinances and can't just say “Yes” to anything.
However, town ordinances present less of a challenge to church expansion than the need to provide for sewage treatment. Variances could be granted to setback requirements. The council could approve the expansion without holding the church to its off street parking requirements, but that would just put more parking along the streets.
The congregation is far from consensus about what they want to do. However, no harm was done to the town's ordinances or the relationship between the town and property owners in town by the resolution.
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