Arkansas - Neighbors Preparing To Take Synagogue Appeal To City Council

Arkansas - Members of the North Sequoyah Neighborhood Association are making their case against allowing a home on Rockwood Trail to be converted into a synagogue roughly two weeks before the Fayetteville City Northwest Arkansas Council considers it.

At its Feb. 21 meeting, the council will hear an appeal of a conditional-use permit planning commissioners granted to convert the home at 1100 Rockwood Trail into a synagogue.

Commissioners granted a conditional use permit with a vote of 6-3 at a Jan. 23 meeting.

A spokeswoman for the neighborhood association, issued a memo to the City Council and a press release outlining the group’s opposition to the permit. The group is primarily concerned that the synagogue would change the make-up of the single-family neighborhood.