Gee, a residential neighborhood doesn’t want a ten story tall lit steeple in the neighborhood. Imagine that.
Cody is not even that big of a city and is not heavily Mormon. Powell and especially Lovell and Cowley are much more LDS, but Cody is the largest city, and I think most important, it is a major tourist town for Yellowstone, so lots of out of towners.
I mean they'd never force their beliefs down the throats of others would they?
If I remember correctly, they pulled a similar stunt in Heber by going to the county and by passing the city.
The church holds itself above the law, above the democratic system and is without a doubt missing any form of concern for its fellow beings and their welfare.
Some day I hope they get torn apart as they've torn lives and communities apart.
The 'Seattle Temple' which isn't in Seattle, of course, is highly visible from I 90 at about milepost 11 in Bellevue, I'm sure its prominence was no accident. I was a member of the Seattle First ward when our Bishop, ' HD', chauffeured SWK around scouting sites...
Some of the ward members accidently saw them together, the rumors could have inspired a film by Spike Lee!!
At the start, there was a nearby general aviation airport in Bellevue, so Ghwads Temple had a bright strobe light near top of the steeple. that was permanently turned off when the airport ceased operations...
Yeah, the locals are not in favor of this building. Cody already has limited building space, unless they go further to the east. Not to mention that getting a hotel room there during peak tourist season is almost impossible, and really expensive.
And while the Northern Bighorn Basin does have a large mormon population (and quite a bit of of polygamy), they are centered more to the east (Powell, Lovell, Greybull, Worland) around the sugar beat fields.
Not pissing off the locals has never been a mormon strength.
When DW #1 & I attended Seattle First ward (in Above $ Average Magnolia neighborhood) 2 stories went on my shelf:
* two generations of a very prosperous family got 'Special FP' permission to tweak the ward boundaries to attend where they preferred instead of with others in Sea First...
* An old-timer described that when the SL / COB people planned the Magnolia chapel, they specified trees for the planting strip native to (wait for it!) UTAH that were completely incompatible with the Seattle- PNW climate. Old-timer was flummoxed by the "discussion" i.e. Argument that ensued to change the minds of the SL people in this matter.
In Morland, these seemingly minor issues - matters can accumulate !!!
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I do have to admit that based on what is in the article, the church's position ought to prevail. It sounds like based on the city council rules, they won the vote for the zoning change. I would guess that three people either not showing up or not voting means this was too much of a hot potato for them. Gutless wonders.