Editor:

Thank you for the coverage on the issues concerning the Lake Forest subdivision.

However, I do feel that the Bulletin did not cover all the concerns, especially pertaining to the church issue.

•No. 1: Traffic will be a major problem since all traffic will be coming into the subdivision via Bayview Drive, which turns into Ridgewood, or off other entrances that feed onto Bayview and/or Ridgewood. The only way to get to Ray’s Lane — a one-way dirt road that leads to the church property — is to funnel all traffic onto Montclair Loop (which is 5/10s of a mile in distance) and then funnel that traffic down Bradbury Court (a small cul-de-sac), which is less than 1/10 of a mile in length.

This church traffic will be on Sundays from approximately 8:30 a.m. until church lets out at 2 p.m. On Wednesday and Friday evenings, traffic will be going down Bradbury Court from approximately 5:30 p.m. until church lets out at 8 p.m. This is too much extra traffic for such a short distance of road.

•No. 2: Supposedly, this church has a membership base of 100 individuals. That would, at the current rate of membership, add about 25 to 50 vehicles to the traffic on Bradbury Court. One would presume that the church will increase its membership and, as it does, it will significantly increase the traffic and noise on Bradbury Court, much less the rest of Lake Forest.

•No. 3: No one can estimate the additional traffic and noise from other church activities, such as revivals, funerals, weddings and baptisms.

•No. 4: Although the 40-acre tract is not part of Lake Forest, it is zoned residential and should remain so. The church only owns 3.07 acres in this 40-acre tract.

•No. 5: Although the only entrance to the church property is down Bradbury Court onto Ray’s Lane, the actual church building will be directly behind Stratford Court (one street prior to Bradbury Court), which is off of Montclair Loop. The church building will be seen by residents whose homes back up to the church property.

Again, there is no entrance from Stratford Court to the church property. The only way in (and only way out) is down Bradbury Court to Ray’s Lane.

•No. 6: It is interesting to note that the church’s SIC codes (standard industrial classification) listed on their Dun & Bradstreet report do not list the appropriate SIC code for “religious organizations.” On the contrary, their SIC codes are for everything but a church.

I hope that the readers of the Daphne Bulletin — and Restoration Fellowship Ministries Inc. — will begin to understand why there is a motivation for the residents of Lake Forest to voice our concerns about this issue.