The LDS Church released today their proposal to develop a community that includes hundreds of homes and a 55-plus adult community around the newly announced Temple in Tooele, Utah. Here is the news article
LINK as well as the Church News Release.
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Below is the plot map showing all the lots that will be for sale. I assume with all the different size lots that there will be price ranges from expensive lots for the affluent to smaller lots for the modest income families. I labeled them accordingly.
Steve Romney, the president of the Church's Real Estate and Land Development, (Suburban Land Reserve) said the following in the news article, “In addition to contributing to needed utility infrastructure around the temple, this community will help protect the temple and create a place where people can enjoy the setting of this sacred building in ways that are important and meaningful to them.”
Is this the new pattern for the city of Zion?
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Is this the pattern for the City of Zion? Not the real Zion, because that requires a "real temple," One which links us with our Father's in Heaven, not only with our progenitors in spirit prison.
Keith Henderson
From the news article: "this community will help protect the temple"
Protect the temple from what I wonder?
It used to be that a real estate developer was just lucky if the Church decided to locate a temple near his development. Now developers can just partner (conspire? collude?) with the Church to guarantee high land and house prices by getting a temple built right in the middle.
"Protect the temple" is code for "protect our investment from falling real estate values."
Well, from crappy houses and ugly developments that would go in without the church having control over them, of course.
I know what the Lds Church wants built by their temples. I am a builder here in southern Utah. I had some home owners who asked me to price out a 2400 sq. Ft. home with a 3 car garage with stucco siding and a standing seam metal roof and rock or brick wainscot to be built in a church owned subdivision right next to the Cedar City temple. The church property manager said the house was not elaborate enough for the subdivision.
Definately not equality for all. I still shake my head as to why the church builds subdivisions.
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