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the purposed expansion, this issue is only going to get DRAMATICALLY worse as the church area will encroach deep into the neighborhood, and the newly proposed building will look down right into our property. Light Pollution: The neighborhood that the church plans on further encroaching into has no street lights, and is isolated by the outlying streets. When the main church building and existing parking lot was erected, this changed that isolation dramatically. The light emanating from the current structure and parking lot is off putting and unwelcome. With the purposed expansion, this issue is going to be made considerably worse, and the light emanating from the new proposed structure will illuminate my property untenably. This reason alone should be grounds to deny the expansion of the church parking lot and new structure. The Proposed Expansion Will Have An Irreversible Detrimental Effect On Neighborhood: The expansion the church is proposing destroys six homes in a community that has a housing shortage, causes irreparable harm to the existing community, and further separates the church from the neighborhood that it inhabits. The houses taken away will never be reconstructed, or turned into housing again. This lose comes with no benefit for the immediate neighborhood nor the greater neighborhood at large. Losing these houses and people only serves the interests of one inhabitant of the neighborhood, and that is the church. Without exception, the people who live in the neighborhood, and are not directly affiliated with the church, do not want to replace housing with a giant structure, parking lot, and prison wall. This is a legitimately frightening prospect for those of us that live in the neighborhood. Even more frightening is that, if this proposal is allowed to move forward, the church will no longer have any responsibility to the neighborhood. As demonstrated, the church already holds the neighborhood with some degree of contempt, and a complete separation will only serve to make this situation worse. With their proposed annexation from the community, it is reasonable to assume that the wall facing the neighborhood will be uncared for, and left derelict as so much of the church’s already existing properties. Even under the best case scenario, this wall would be an insurmountable problem for the neighborhood, but given this property owner’s history, allowing such a thing would be a horrific mistake that cannot be undone.