An occasional large get-together at a neighbor's home is not a big deal. It becomes a problem when you regularly have so many people over that residents as well as emergency vehicles have trouble getting through the street.
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A home bible study does not make the home a church. This is simply friends gathering in the Lords Name.
About the street? The street is public. If parking is allowed on the street, then as many vehicles as can easily and legally park on it may do so.
If the parking causes congestion such that emergency vehicles can not pass through, then the City ought to put up “no parking” signs.
I'm not saying I'd like the situation myself, but law abiding people should be left alone and the rest of us (myself included) need to Get Over It.
” A home bible study does not make the home a church. This is simply friends gathering in the Lords Name.
About the street? The street is public. If parking is allowed on the street, then as many vehicles as can easily and legally park on it may do so.”
Correct. 50 people is a lot though : )
It may be accessible to the public, and parking on the street may be permitted for residents and occasional guests, but it was built to allow passage of vehicles. Whether they are gathering in the LORD's Name or not is irrelevant.
I assure you, I'm over it. I just hope if I need an ambulance it can get to my home quickly, unlike the one that came into our neighborhood last year and had to reverse direction and take an indirect path because it couldn't get through.
If the find the family it has legal recourse to get the money and if they want increase the fine. I don’t see anywhere in the story where the government can define family worship in a home or anywhere else.
Doesn’t anyone care “what the neighbors might think” anymore? We had a much more civil society when we did.
These people aren’t running a bible study; they’re running a church in a residential neighborhood with events twice a week and calling it a bible study.
There are good reasons you can’t operate a Starbucks in your garage. Chief among these is your neighbors won’t like it. Traffic. Parking. The fact that they bought in a single-family home residential neighborhood, not downtown in a business district.
What ABOUT the rights of the neighbors to live in peace on a street with no businesses? Where they bought? That’s what zoning laws are for. Why do churches think they should be exempt?
By the way, a home in my neighborhood was turned into a church/mosque/synagogue (doesn’t matter which). It’s ruined the lives of the neighbors, who would love to get the hell out, only they can’t sell their houses.
Oh, but religious freedom would be in danger if there were sensible limits on on what people want to do regardless of the wishes of the community. Sure.