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(Part 2 of a series following the U.S. Supreme Courts ruling last week to let stand the lower court decision that the property of the historic Falls Church in Northern Virginia belonged to the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, and not an arch-conservative pack of defectors from that church who voted to leave it in December 2006, but subsequently occupied the property for five and a half years. For part one, click here.)

The City of Falls Church, Virginia, both is and isnt a small, sleepy residential enclave inside the Washington, D.C. Beltway, seven miles from the White House. It used to be truly country, a getaway destination that residents of the capital could ride to on weekends and relax under large shade trees. But in recent years, the press of urbanization crept in, swelling the schools and replacing tree shade with the multistory building type.

But always, since the 1730s in this region rich with early American colonial history, the center of small Falls Church has been The Falls Church. Built in 1735 as an outpost of the Anglican church in Alexandria where George Washington was a vestryman, it is a small box-like structure whose exterior has gone unchanged for going on 300 years. It has been a functioning church the entire time, named for its proximity to the Great Falls on the Potomac. With the American Revolution, its ownership remained with its Alexandria mother church as it transitioned from Anglican to Episcopalian. A small graveyard on its heavily-shaded perimeter is the final resting place of persons dating back to its founding. During the Civil War it was held at different times by both Union and Confederate forces pushing back and forth in the area, and was used as a hospital.

The grounds are modestly imposing, even as a portion of them were used for the construction in the 1990s of a large sanctuary adjacent the original building.

The church provided an ideal social and spiritual center for its surrounding community, which after World War II incorporated into an independent city so it could develop its own progressive school system, now nationally renowned for its excellence. It was the first in Virginia to integrate after the Brown Vs. Board of Education decision in 1954.

A founder of that school system was a leading member of The Falls Church since she moved to the area in 1941. Upon her passing at age 100 last year, a new school building in the City was named for her. The longtime superintendent of that school system was also a member of the church.

But the positive symbiosis between this venerable church and the community around it was sharply disrupted in the mid-1980s when it fell into the hands of new leadership that sent it in a very different direction. A young rector from North Carolina started shaping it into something unlike almost any other Episcopal church in the U.S.

It is not too simple to consider it an aspect of the Reagan revolution. Among other things, the shift happened in the context of the radical neo-conservative political thrust sweeping the nearby nations capital. New parishioners who shared the rectors arch-conservative views began flooding into the church from outside its community.

In 1991 I founded a weekly newspaper for the City of Falls Church. In almost no time it began chronicling the churchs new form of harsh interventions into the community around it. A zealous youth minister spoke at a funeral for a family life teacher at the local high school, a very generous and accepting soul enormously popular and beloved by all the students, and he used the occasion to rail against her tolerance of homosexuality.

Next, the student editorial board of the high school paper voted to accept an ad from a national pro-gay tolerance group and the church put up such a fuss that the faculty adviser to the school paper was almost fired, and was on the receiving end of ferocious hate mail for months.

The rest is here:
Church Defectors Acted Immorally, Part 2

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Some in the real estate community say Charlotte might be on the verge of an apartment market bubble. But apartment complex builders say strong job growth and a rising population will keep the market thriving.

A new report from research firm Real Data tracked activity in Charlottes multifamily market over the past six months and found 10,067 units under construction. Most of the new units are in uptown and in neighborhoods such as South End, SouthPark, NoDa and Elizabeth. An additional 11,003 units have been proposed.

The units under construction mark the most apartment-building Charlotte has ever seen, according to Charles Dalton, principal at Real Data. The previous high came during in 2000, he said, when just under 8,000 units were under construction.

The city over the past five years has averaged 4,479 units under construction, so the latest figures show the multifamily development market has yet to cool down, despite concerns in some quarters that it might be getting overbuilt. The Real Data report says that as the newest units hit the market in the next year, vacancy rates that currently sit at 6.2 percent will rise to as much as 8 percent.

Critics say developers who couldnt get money to build condos or single-family homes during the recession are bingeing on apartment construction since banks have been more likely to lend for multifamily projects.

I think were kind of overdosing on the apartments, said Wendy Field, who develops townhomes for sale. If you just drive around Charlotte you can tell. Theres just so many apartments. Its hard to think theres enough people to justify it all.

She believes Charlottes apartment market could see a downturn similar to the recent real estate bubble if rental rates dont keep performing well enough to keep banks and other creditors happy.

Apartment developers disagreed.

Spectrum Properties broke ground last week for The Mint, a new 177-unit luxury apartment complex across West Fourth Street from the new BB&T Ballpark.

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