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Dear Mayor Hubbard,<\/span><\/p>\n

We write to you not as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, nor on behalf of it, but as members of that church scattered across the country who have watched the Fairview temple <\/span>controversy<\/span><\/a> with growing concern. We know municipal leadership is hard. We know neighbors can disagree in good faith. We have often worked with our neighbors to get temples approved in our communities. We know growth can<\/span> bring friction<\/span><\/a>, and that public officials often inherit tensions they did not create. We also know that the language leaders use can either heal a community or quietly inflame it.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is why your renewed request that the Church voluntarily lower the Fairview Texas Temple steeple deserves a candid response, not from the Church, but from its people. The town approved a 120-foot steeple more than a year ago; construction is now underway; and your latest appeal asks the Church to reopen what had already been mediated, compromised, approved, and begun.<\/span><\/p>\n

Federal law protects religious institutions from discriminatory or unduly burdensome land-use decisions.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>The legal question is not mysterious. Federal law protects religious institutions from discriminatory or unduly burdensome land-use decisions, and the Department of Justice specifically notes that the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) protects houses of worship in zoning and landmarking matters. More pointedly, you have acknowledged that the Church has the legal right to proceed with the approved design.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Church could have made this a courtroom fight from the beginning. It could have pressed for the original plan, with a steeple reported at roughly 174 feet\u2014nearly 50% taller than the design now approved. Instead, after mediation, it reduced the project to the 120-foot steeple now under construction. The Church also accepted a slew of other concessions as part of a \u201cneighborly\u201d agreement. The concessions were not trivial. They were attempts to recognize your priorities and work with you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So when, after all that, you suggest that the \u201cneighborly\u201d thing would be still another reduction, many of us hear something more troubling than a plea for harmony. We hear a public official redefining neighborliness as surrender. We hear an approved agreement treated as merely the latest opening bid. We hear a handshake being turned into a pressure campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n

That is not a compromise. It is a way of poisoning the well. It says to the public: if the Church builds what your town approved, then the Church has chosen legalism over love, rights over respect, height over harmony. But the Church already compromised. Fairview already approved. Construction already began. At some point, \u201cplease compromise\u201d stops sounding like reconciliation and starts sounding like bad faith.<\/span><\/p>\n

A smaller building in one city is not a perpetual promise never to build a larger one.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>And this is not the first time. In your own <\/span>Dallas Morning News<\/span><\/a> commentary last year, you urged \u201ca further compromise\u201d and suggested that lowering the spire would show the Church valued harmony over division. Before that, public reporting quoted Fairview\u2019s mayor describing the Church as \u201cbeing a bully in a way.\u201d Mayor, let us say this as gently as possible: a religious community is not bullying a town by declining to renegotiate a permit the town granted. But a town can bully a religious minority by repeatedly telling the public that the minority is unneighborly unless it keeps giving back what was already agreed to.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nor is it serious to argue that because the Church has built smaller temples or steeples elsewhere, it must therefore build this temple smaller too. A smaller building in one city is not a perpetual promise never to build a larger one. Fairview\u2019s own records show that religious-facility heights have historically been handled case by case, including approval of a 154-foot bell tower for Creekwood United Methodist Church. We noticed that distinct treatment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We understand that change is hard. Fairview sits in a region that is changing quickly. The Census Bureau reports that <\/span>Dallas-Fort Worth grew 11%<\/span><\/a> since 2020, with especially significant growth on the metro\u2019s outer edges. Four of the country\u2019s five <\/span>fastest-growing cities<\/span><\/a> are small cities in the DFW area. Latter-day Saints are part of that growth, too. The Church has tens of thousands of members in North Texas, and we need temples to serve them. Perhaps the character of Fairview that needs to be preserved is how you treat everyone in your city. Perhaps treating your neighbors of different faiths like they belong is the character that should be preserved. We\u2019re not intruders. We\u2019re neighbors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You can still be the neighborly one here. You can say, \u201cWe disagreed. We debated. We mediated. We both gave a little. We approved. And now we will honor what was approved.\u201d That\u2019s the neighborly thing to do. And mayor, if you don\u2019t stop this passive-aggressive campaign, perhaps it\u2019s you who\u2019s chosen not to be neighborly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Church is building the temple Fairview approved. It is not unneighborly for us to ask you to honor that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Respectfully,<\/span><\/p>\n

C.D. Cunningham<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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