If this community center is to be so much more than just a mosque, why not just eliminate the controversy by eliminating the mosque from the building plans?
Keep the swimming pool, the cooking school, and all the rest; just delete the worship space from the community center and prohibit its use for any sort of worship/communal prayers (by any faith).
That takes the religious issue right out of it, N’est-ce pas?
“...That takes the religious issue right out of it, N’est-ce pas?”
Makes sense to me.
And their decision not to use the other option is what really makes it feel like a provocation.