King County, Washington, the county that includes
Seattle and some of its suburbs, on Monday placed a moratorium on new
building permits for chapels and schools until this coming December,
inconveniencing the LDS Church and other large religions in the area and
surprising local school districts, which had hoped to build in coming
months. But the move is minor compared with the proposal that led to the ban
as a compromise; restricting new chapels to 10,000 square feet or less. |