Thursday, September 1, 2011
Church representative said amount of money the village should owe is still undetermined.
The church that sued Bolingbrook in federal court in March and later won its claim is seeking monetary damages from the village, a church representative said. Liberty Temple Full Gospel Church sued the village for allegedly discriminated against its efforts to relocate to a long-vacant space inside the Bolingbrook Commons shopping center near Interstate 55 and Route 53. The case was essentially a matter of one’s interpretation of the village’s zoning map. Eventually, a judge ordered the village to grant the church a special-use permit in a timely matter. The church is now set to move into the new space in the next week or so, said church representative Tom Ciesielka. But the matter is far from settled, he said. "Based upon the hostility …
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Village and church that sued scheduled to appear in court next on Friday.
Lawyers representing Liberty Temple Full Gospel Church, the church that sued the village in federal court in March, say village officials are still making the church’s move to a Bolingbrook shopping center harder than it has to be. The two sides were scheduled to appear in court last week, but that status hearing was delayed because the village “had come up with a new way of horsing the church around,” said Andy Norman, a lawyer with Mauck & Baker, LLC, the firm that represents the church. Norman said the church was waiting on a building permit, essentially the last piece of the puzzle to end the litigation, which stemmed from a federal lawsuit filed March 30 by Liberty Temple that alleged Bolingbrook officials discriminated against church…
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
The village board adopted a new zoning map that labels the Bolingbrook Commons shopping center as B-2 community retail land.
Liberty Temple Full Gospel Church may soon be allowed to operate out of a space in the Bolingbrook Commons, but they’ll likely be the last church to do so without acquiring a special-use permit from the village. That’s because the village board officially put a new zoning map on record—one that lists the Bolingbrook Commons shopping center as B-2 community retail. The new zoning map stemmed from a federal lawsuit between the village and church that alleged village Bolingbrook officials discriminated against church officials' efforts to relocate to a long-vacant space inside the shopping center near Interstate 55 and Route 53. Essentially, the spat was over whether the property the church was trying to move into was zoned B-2, which would …
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
The Village of Bolingbrook's Board of Trustees will meet tonight at their regularly scheduled board meeting.
Likely eager to put the matter behind them, the village board appears set to adopt a new zoning map that has been at the center of controversy since the end of March. The ordinance is just one item on a particularly busy agenda for the board's regularly scheduled meeting tonight. Also on the agenda is an ordinance to grant a special use permit for a new carry-out restaurant and a resolution that will donate village money to the Community Service Council of Northern Will County. Mayor Roger Claar is also set to swear in the newly elected village trustees, all of which are incumbents. Zoning Map The new zoning map stems from a federal lawsuit between the village and Liberty Temple Full Gospel Church that alleged village Bolingbrook officials…
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Decision means Liberty Temple can relocate to Bolingbrook Commons shopping center.
CHICAGO—U.S. Judge Harry Leinenweber said it was “pretty clear” Bolingbrook’s zoning map was misleading at best and ruled against the village in a zoning dispute Tuesday in a U.S. District Court. Leinenweber said a reasonable person looking at the village’s zoning map would have concluded that the property Liberty Temple Full Gospel Church of Bolingbrook is trying to move into would be zoned as B-4 commercial property. The decision means the Bolingbrook church, which had been operating out of the Holiday Inn in the village, can move forward in its attempt to relocate to the Bolingbrook Commons shopping center. It could be up and running by Easter if it passes building inspection. The decision stems from a federal lawsuit filed March 30 by …
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