Restore Our Sanctuary

I sent this photo to Alderman Beverly Burger, J. Johnson, Jamie Groce and several other people a few years ago in an effort to illustrate how simple it would be to put a traffic light where the entrances to the two churches align rather than routing traffic up Country Road.

My husband and I talked face-to-face with Jamie Groce who told us, "It would be too expensive for the Grace Point developers to bridge the creek." But, the exisiting entrance on Franklin Road to their property had been in use for at least 30 years. What's the problem?

Odd that GracePoint developers managed to come up with $450,000 to widen the mouth of Country Road. Both Jamie and Alderman Burger told us Clear View Baptist would be forced to close their entrance/exit onto Franklin Road
and align their new entrance/exit to Country Road.

Clear View Baptist's construction is now completed. (It looks great.) They didn't move their entrance.

Does anyone else smell that fishy smell? Yeah, that smell of buddy deals and kick-backs.

I think it's time for a class action law suit against the city. We neighbors would like our sanctuary restored.

Former view

This is the former view from our back deck.

New view from our back deck.

This is our new view from our back deck.

The ruining of our neighborhood

Click on this photo for better viewing. This photo, taken from the parking lot of Clearview Baptist Church, was sent to our Alderman, Beverly Burger,on or about Tuesday, December 26, 2006. We neighbors suggested (hoped for, PRAYED!) that the traffic light be placed here, where the entrances to the two churches sit, rather than funneling traffic up Country Road into our formerly quiet neighborhood.

Franklin Road Church entrances

This photo shows the (decades old)deeded entrance into the Grace Point church property from Franklin Road. Grace Point's entrance sits directly across the road from Clear View baptist church's entrance. The City of Franklin would not allow Grace Point to utilize it's deeded entrance at Franklin Road but forced traffic to be routed up our once quiet little cul-de-sac, Country Road.

Franklin Road church entrances.

While across the street, Clearview Baptist was allowed to keep their large paved entrance/exit directly onto Franklin Road.

Our new view from our kitchen window

Direct view from our living room.

This is now our view from our living room. It looks like a federal prison right outside my back door.