Watched a recent podcast about the LDS Church missed the city planning's deadline for a resubmission of revised temple building plans. Both the city and the church had agreed to mediation. Both sides agreed to a reduced steeple height to 120 feet. Since both sides agreed with the new building proposal, all the church needed to do was to resubmit new plans with the agreed temple steeple height.

Well the church failed to meet the planning commission's deadline.

We can only speculate why the church didn't comply in a timely fashion.

Maybe Rusty forgot! He is 100 years old ya know!

The church jut release the plans foe the new Belgium Temple. They re converting a warehouse into a temple and the tower is just a short steel post. No kidding. This should close he case for the Fairview people. The temple looks like a warehouse.

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Is there a U.S. case where ChurchCo has violated zoning (or other) law(s) & told the community 'too bad'?

Kinda Of. They've threatened towns with bankruptcy (astronomical court and legal fees) if they didn't change their zoning. See Cody Wyoming for starters. Talk about turning public opinion, in areas where most residents didn't care, know if you are mormon and didn't know much about "the" church. Now, they know. And the overwhelming positions are negative.

https://www.codyenterprise.com/news/local/article_42647158-355b-11ee-b6e8-f3e1726f834b.html

I’ll interpret “kind of” to mean “no.” There is nothing in the article you linked that indicates that Cody is in any danger of going bankrupt over this. It will be annoyingly expensive. Not debilitatingly expensive.

Meanwhile, the nonMo townspeople will indeed be very annoyed. I take that as proof that LDS Inc is interested in impressing tourists going to Yellowstone, not the residents of Cody. The temple site looms over the road leaving town toward the NP.

If you would have read the link, you'd have learned this;

"LDS representatives also said potential litigation would be costly for the city and its citizens, who would likely lose in the courts, and cited a federal law protecting religious rights.

“It was clearly a threat,” said Terry Skinner, a member of the Preserve Our Cody Neighborhoods. “It’s a financial threat to the citizens and city of Cody.”

"LDS has already filed two lawsuits against the city contesting procedures by Cody’s Planning and Zoning Board. Hulme said the legal moves were made to preserve the church’s rights."


LDS Inc. has taken a page from the Mob playbook;

"Yo. Nice little town yuse got here. Be a shame if something happened to it."

The church isn’t building temples any faster now than they did 15 years ago. All of Russ’s temple announcing is creating a huge backlog of temples to find building sites for and deal with legal problems on. I imagine this has spread the people in charge of getting the pre construction work done thin.

Missing a deadline is pretty sloppy but the whole situation seems poorly managed. It looks like out of control subordinates throwing their weight around and nobody in charge who’s really thinking.

It's a strategy.

Let the heat die down, maybe get one or two new members on the commission, then spring forward with what they originally wanted.

Fairview, you were lied to about the temple tower being important. Look at this.

https://churchofjesuschristtemples.org/brussels-belgium-temple/

City is being sued by the church as of Jan 27th. It probably was the church's intent all along because the church neither apologizes nor compromises.

? It compromises all the time. They have lowered a number of steeples, and agreed to tone down the lighting intensity/hours at the Heber UT temple.