Letter to Editor: Wrong place for church
When St. James Church was built in Belvidere in 1886, there were few homes nearby and certainly no automobiles. The school was built years later.
What will it cost to buy enough homes for adequate parking for a new church? Where will you store antique artifacts when you tear down St. James?
Let’s design and build a more modern church on 22 donated acres on the town’s western edge. The building could have a large commercial well and septic system.
We are interested in building a church in a proper location with a proper building committee, hoping this facility will last us for 125 years.
Mayor Brereton has asked us to concentrate on proper zoning for our community. The zoning committee and the City Council should do the same thing.
No way should they consider this residential area near downtown Belvidere as meeting local building codes. The location violates every rule of proper zoning.
When you see the problems with the parish in Boone County and the parochial school in South Beloit, parishioners must ask whether they are obligated to serve the priests and the diocese, or are the diocese and priests supposed to serve the parishioners?
— Jack Wolf, Belvidere
The above is taken from: http://www.rrstar.com/opinions/letters/x371610673/Letter-Wrong-place-for-church and also appeared in the 7-26-2011 Insight page of the paper edition.
Below is another letter from that Insight page.
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