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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Liberty Temple Gospel Church vs. Bolingbrook Elected Officials

People are wondering what is really behind the new lawsuit filed by Liberty Temple and Roger Claar. 
The Village put out a press release claiming it was all based on the church NOT acquiring the proper permits and alleging that the temple had started construction without the permits.  Therefore, placing the blame on the church. http://www.bolingbrook.com//info/pdf/PressRelease_4_13_11.pdf

However, the church location was sold to the church by the strip plaza owners who did research the zoning requirements.  According to the zoning, it was already zoned for this type of use and did not require special use permits.  Therefore, they accepted the deposit for rents and the church spent money to construct and prepare their new business.

When Roger Claar looked at the zoning maps he found that they were not up to code.  The maps, that he at one time must have approved, were now considered "wrong" and that this location should not have been coded the way it was.

So instead of saying, whoops, sorry, we made an error in our documents so we will allow you to continue, he stopped the construction. 

Now the residents are paying for the over inflated attorneys to battle this one out in court.  This is costing the church money that it needed and planned on having to open the temple.  The fault clearly lies in the hands of whomever signed off on the wrong property zoning map.

We would like to know who this is and if they will be responsible for paying the tax payers share of this lawsuit. 

It makes me think of customer service today.  Say you go into a restaurant and you order a steak from the menu.  They bring you a chicken.  When you complain, they say the menu has a typo and they take your chicken but don't give you anything in return.  If you paid for the bill early, your stuck with no food and no money left.  This is what they did to this church.  What kind of service is this Village offering to it's residents?  Defiantly not Disney type service!

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