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Construction on the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro, the largest church on earth, started 28 years ago in the small Ivory Coast city of Yamoussoukro. Planned by then-president Flix Houphout-Boigny, who led the country through two decades of economic boomtime known as the "Ivorian miracle," the church would be a monumentto God, but also to himself.

The economic miracle spanned from 1960, when independence from France arrived, to the late 1970s. Like similar booms in the United States or Germany, it had already begun to show troubling signs of decay by the early 1980s. But, by then, the 75-year-old Houphout-Boigny was in the process of putting the finishing touch on his presidency: Moving the Ivory Coast's capital to Yamoussoukro, his tiny hometown more than 150 miles inland of the country's biggest city.

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To build his capital, Houphout-Boigny recruited a French-Lebanese architect named Pierre Fakhoury. Together, they planned a grand, super-modern city of the future, featuring palaces, roads, one of the largest airports in Africa, and a churchthe Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukrothat would be modeled directly after St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

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The church would be the crown on the new capital's head: A 320,000 square foot masterpiece, filled with details to shame the real vatican. There would be a 100-pound gold cross, an ornate papal villa, and a massive stained glass window showing Jesus Christ, flanked by the president himself. The Vatican requested that Fakhoury make the church's dome just slightly lower than St. Peter's own.

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SPRING HILL A delay in road construction prompted a local church to ask permission to use two subdivision streets as access points for Sunday traffic.

City Planner Paul Keltner said Spring Hills Planning Commission approved a plan allowing the Church at Station Hill to access two streets in a local subdivision as roadwork had not caught up to the churchs original plans. He said the plan was approved Monday despite opposition from both the citys planning and engineering staff.

Church traffic would enter the property from and exit onto Aaron Drive and Austin Drive which then funnels down to Common Wealth Drive and Port Royal Road, Keltner said.

The churchs first phase was originally designed to have access along collector roads Ray Williams and the future expansion of Reserve Boulevard, Keltner said. Since neither collector road has been completed along their property, they proposed to push all the traffic from the church along two minor subdivision streets.

Keltner said the churchs plot of land contains a 50,262-square-foot building with the potential to seat 700 people. He said Phase 1 of the project indicates as many as 607 vehicles could move throughout the two residential streets before and after Sunday services.

Planning Commission Chairman Jonathan Schwartz said the church will be allowed to direct traffic onto Aaron Drive and Austin Drive until the needed extension of Reserve Boulevard is finished.

At the end of the day, they will connect to Reserve Boulevard, he said. That wasnt showing on their final site plan, so we amended the approval of their plan as long as the submit a new plan showing the new place where it will connect. As it stands now, the plan is to use those two roads until Reserve Boulevard is fully constructed.

Schwartz said there are no definite plans for the completion of Reserve Boulevard to his knowledge.

The money for the construction is in escrow, he said. A lot of the decisions on when that expansion will happen are up to the Board of Mayor and Aldermen.

The commission also made changes to how height restrictions will be approved in the future.

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FEMI MAKINDE writes that the Governor Rauf Aregbesola-led administration has ignited another round of controversy, for proposing to build an interdenominational Christian worship centre in Osun State

The Governor of Osun State, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has again stirred the hornets nest with a proposal to build an interdenominational church auditorium in the state. Arebegsola, a devout Muslim, has been in the eye of the storm over allegations that he is trying to Islamise the state as evident in his educational policies.

Perhaps to put a lie to these assertions, his administration decided to acquire a large expanse of land at Odo Iju and Ibodi in Atakumosa West Local Government Area of the state, to build what it considers a befitting place of worship for Christians.

The opposition, armed with the argument that there should be separation of the church and the state, has come down hard on the governor. It has accused the governor of wasting scarce public resources in a vain attempt to score cheap political points.

Aregbesola, had hardly paid the N51m compensation to the land owners to enable the administration to build the interdenominational worship centre (to be known as Open Heaven Worship Centre), when Senator Iyiola Omisore, raised the alarm. Omisore, who is a contender for Arebegsolas job, was among the first set of people to criticise the compensation.

Omisore, a former deputy governor of the state under the defunct Alliance for Democracy, accused the governor of profligacy. According to him, the payment is also an attempt to divert the states resources preparatory to the forthcoming 2014 governorship poll. It is ironic that the strongest criticism of the planned Christian worship centre is coming from Omisore, who is a Christian.

Undeterred, the administration is forging ahead with the project. The state Commissioner for Lands, Physical Planning and Urban Development, Mr. Muyiwa Ige, presented cheques to the farmers, who had crops on the land. He explained that the state government paid a total of N11m as compensation to 243 farmers, who lost their farmland to the ongoing construction of the MKO Abiola International Airport, Ido Osun in Egbedore Local Government Area of the state.

He also explained that the state government would not hesitate to compensate those with genuine documents on any property taken over in the cause of developing the state.

Omisore and his supporters are not convinced. They insist that the compensation being paid out is one of several ways the administration is devising to mop up funds to be used to rig the forthcoming governorship election. Omisore, in a statement by his Director of Media and Strategy, Mr. Diran Odeyemi, accused the governor of attempting to rig the coming poll using the states resources.

He described the proposed building of the Interdenominational Worship Centre, which he estimated would cost several billions of naira, as a misplacement of priority and sheer hypocrisy. According to him, the proposed worship centre is an attempt to siphon taxpayers money with no genuine concern for the welfare of the people of the state.

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Published: Tuesday, 1/14/2014

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Toledo City Council today approved a zoning change to clear the way for a new apartment building to house college students on West Bancroft Street near the University of Toledo

Council voted 9-2 in favor of the change for 2565 to 2661 Bancroft. Councilmen Tyrone Riley and Jack Ford voted against. Councilman Matt Cherry was not present for the meeting.

Developers plan to demolish a former night club, coffee shop, and other buildings on Bancroft near campus for the $27 million construction project to put up a 143-unit building designed to appeal to college students.

The developer needed a special-use permit and zoning of mixed commercial-residential on the 6-acres at the southeast corner of Bancroft and Westwood Avenue. The plans won approval from the city plan commission and from councils own zoning and planning committee, where it was the subject of about 90 minutes of discussion.

Mr. Riley said complaints from some neighbors in the adjacent Bancroft Hills subdivision gave him reservations about the project.

The builder, Guy Totino, of Cleveland, refused to answer questions about the project.

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NEWARK Federal prosecutors said a contractor has admitted conspiring to pay about $40,000 in bribes to NJ Transit employees to obtain snow removal contracts.

Edward ONeill of Toms River pleaded guilty Tuesday to a complaint charging him with conspiracy to commit bribery. He faces up to five years in prison when hes sentenced April 22.

ONeill, 53, was the president of PPW Contracting, which provided professional power washing and snow removal services for NJ Transit.

Prosecutors said that between September 2011 and March 2012, ONeill and another PPW executive agreed to give and then gave an NJ Transit employee about $20,000 in exchange for help in securing a snow removal contract for the Trenton train station. They said the employee was serving as a cooperating witness.

The two executives later agreed to give the employee another $20,000 including $8,000 that was supposed to go to an NJ Transit supervisor in exchange for their help in securing another snow removal contract.

The second executive, 55-year-old Thomas Braden of Toms River, pleaded guilty last month to bribery. He faces 10 years when hes sentenced.

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