Posted on 04/25/2017 7:41:01 PM PDT by vladimir998
Roughly 100 people turned out in New City Monday evening to protest a plan to build a Syrian Orthodox church in their neighborhood.
The Malankara Catholic Church purchased a 11,000-square-foot property on Mountain View Avenue to build a place of worship and a 55-space parking lot.
(Excerpt) Read more at hudsonvalley.news12.com ...
Would they protest an “Islamic Center?”
Are they maybe confusing Syrian with Islamic?
this would have to be a very small church.
Those would have to be very small cars. 11,000 square feet, if ideally laid out, would probably hold about 32 normal parking spaces. (Rule of thumb is 350 sq ft per space). So it would have to be concluded that either the 'church' is really a motorcycle gang, or everyone drives a Smart car or smaller. And that still wouldn't leave any room for a building, so the church itself would need to be an underground bunker. So I can see why the neighbors might be concerned about what is really going on.
In perspective, Aldi looks for about 2.5 acres for a sales floor area of about 10,000 sq feet and 84 parking spaces. These folks are talking about a total property size of about the same footprint of just the store, excluding office and storage space.
Or perhaps, just perhaps, we are dealing with a typical reporter.
The protests are not about the building being built. It is about the concern that there are not correct road conditions, small and winding, to handle traffic. They would apply the same thought to a McDonald’s or a Sears. They just don’t feel anything with any size of traffic needs is a good idea.
From the article:
“Many of the people who came to the planning board meeting to protest told News 12 the church would take away from the area’s quaint, suburban feel. “We have no animosity or feelings about the church. We are against anything that would be developed there,” says neighbor Ed Mooney.”
The article just was used to sensationalize the problem by emphasizing it being a church probably because they were trying to get a reaction in that direction so they can sell their wares.
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“They just don’t feel anything with any size of traffic needs is a good idea.”
The church will have a 55-space parking lot. That means the neighbors will have to deal with 55 cars going by once a week for on the book ends of a 2 - 3 hour liturgy.
If these people just go to their own churches on Sunday morning, they wouldn’t even notice. And I bet that has something to do with it. How much you want to bet that these people are NOT regular church goers?
It seems to be a local issue about (1)narrow winding road with no shoulder, (2) already no sufficient for residential traffic that needs to use it, (3) congestion and safety concerns about the traffic to and from the church as well the good possibility that many congregants will have to park on the road.
I think the locals do not see this so much as protesting “a church” as protesting what any “people attracting” establishment on that small site will mean to a roadway that to them is already too narrow for its existing uses.
So basically you are saying the people admitted outright to an antitheist motivation. Because suburban areas typically have churches off of the main thoroughfares nested in residential areas.
The statement didn’t hold water.
SO many Freepers have expressed such a notion: like, “Let all the Syrians kill themselves; they’re all a bunch of Muslims anyway.”
I suspect they meant an 11,000-square-foot church and a 55-space parking lot.
“So basically you are saying the people admitted outright to an antitheist motivation?”
Nope, not at all. If you pull up the article it specifically mentions from the only identified protesters that the article interviewed and posted that the problem was the road conditions or the local flora and fauna. They never once mentioned in the article anything about the religion itself.
I can speculate that there may be another intent, but the only thing the readers like you and I have to go on is a local aesthetics problem and the traffic if we go by the article.
And I still feel because of the covert way they brought a church into the article instead of calling a building or any other type of structure, they were sensationalizing the article. The statement from the article from a neighbor named Mooney that I copied and pasted, is an example.
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“How much you want to bet that these people are NOT regular church goers?”
No bet. But we’re not there, we don’t know other than what the article is saying as to the conditions, desires, or the needs of the local landowners. All we have is the article that doesn’t relate to religion at all except what the writers of the article is, in my thoughts, trying to imply by including the type of building being constructed.
Let’s take another scenario: How many times have you heard of an accident on the road involving an SUV? I have to say very often. But the total number of SUV’s on the public roadways if at 11.42% of all vehicles according to an analysis by Experian Automotive of its AutoCount Vehicles in OperationSM database. Pickup trucks are just over 20%. But making a particular car the villain can slow sales because the government wants you to use gas saving autos and public transportation. It just depends on what they are trying to get across.
As you can see, I have absolutely no trust at all of the media. And for me, they have done nothing to change it.
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