Lone Mountain Nevada Temple Update

[ZealoulyStriving]

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We're getting a House of the Lord on the Westside!!

https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/las-vegas-city-council-to-vote-on-proposed-lds-temple/

 

[NeuroTypical]

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Those in opposition claim that those in favor are well organized and have packed the council meeting with people who don’t live in the area and don’t have a stake in the development.

This is me, taking notes, so I'll know how to act when we start this process for the Colorado Springs temple.

- Be well organized.
- Pack the council meetings, even if I live 10-20 miles away from the eventual location that gets picked.
- Prepare to be characterized as someone without "a stake in the development".

I can do those things.  

[Just_A_Guy]

This particular controversy was amusing to me because the current lot in its undeveloped, desert-y state appears (at least, from Google) to be a rather spectacular eyesore; and the landscaping of the nearby houses is pretty barren.

I’m sure the temple will employ some degree of xeriscaping, given its location; but it’s hard to imagine a temple doing anything but improving the aesthetic of the neighborhood.

Next time people raise phoney complaints like this, the Church should immediately concede and donate the proposed site to the city on the condition it be developed as high-density, low-income housing.

Edited July 19, 2024 by Just_A_Guy

[mikbone]

The wife and I were watching one particularly vengeful woman talking during the hearing.  And i remember my wife getting upset at the presenters words and vitriol.  And one point the woman recommended that we could worship in a tent. 

I could feel my wife’s irritation flare and I stated, “Boy is she going to be disappointed.”

My wife regained her composure and then hugged me fiercely.

[mordorbund]

8 hours ago, mikbone said:

And one point the woman recommended that we could worship in a tent. 

We could, but I don’t think she’d like that either.

[Just_A_Guy]

6 minutes ago, mordorbund said:

We could, but I don’t think she’d like that either.

“Sure, we can do the tent thing.  But there will be blood.  And smoke.  And the screeching of livestock having their throats slit.”

[ZealoulyStriving]

21 minutes ago, Just_A_Guy said:

“Sure, we can do the tent thing.  But there will be blood.  And smoke.  And the screeching of livestock having their throats slit.”

And the sounding of the shofar.

[Ironhold]

Over on Quora there was an individual who was spamming the site with angry posts claiming that the church was trying to "force" a temple into her town and that she was so very angry about us trying to "violate" the building ordinances and whatnot. 

Basically, the church was seeking a variance so that the steeple on a proposed temple in the area could be a bit taller than what local building codes allowed. But in her eyes, that variance request was somehow all the "evidence" she needed to "know" that we were basically imperialists who were going to demand that we get our way no matter what. 

[NeuroTypical]

It's more or less, always like this for every temple we build in the U.S..   And it's not even an LDS-specific thing.  Any time anyone tries to build anything anywhere, there will be people mad about it, who show up to public meetings and raise a stink.

I'm not really sure why this temple has made so much news, maybe it's the "Mormons in Sin City" aspect that generates clicks or whatever.  But it's always like this.

[mordorbund]

2 hours ago, NeuroTypical said:

It's more or less, always like this for every temple we build in the U.S.. 

 

 

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Some say, “I do not like to do it, for we never began to build a temple without the bells of hell beginning to ring.”

I want to hear them ring again (DBY, 410).