At last night’s meeting, a local church sought a conditional use permit to move into a former liquor store’s location.
Although, I firmly believe that a church should be treated like any other conditional use applicant, I see easily the political and social risk in not treating the application delicately.
To serve the city well, a document for display should not have too many markings regarding a church or charity.
It should have a minimum of notes, as brief as possible.
Marking up a document for a proposed orphanage, for example, would just be giving a hostage to Fortune. It’s too risky that someone might grandstand on the issue.
That didn’t happen last night, but there is no reason to run that risk.