A report was distributed to the City Council that included several renderings of the temple and site plans. On Monday, February 8, 2010, the Calgary City Council approval the amended version of the bylaw, which permitted the height and design of the temple while adding provisions that limited the number of places of worship on site to two (the temple and meetinghouse), established specific building and steeple heights for both places of worship, and restricted access to the site to three specific turn lanes. The Association did not oppose the building and steeple height as proposed. 4 The suggestion proved to be an effective compromise, which met the needs of the Church while addressing the concerns of neighbors, namely, concern over the possibility of a loop hole on height restrictions and difficulty in challenging an access issue, as expressed by the Chair of the Rocky Ridge Royal Oak Community Association. The Commission recommended adoption of the new bylaw, but it also recommended that the City Council consider an alternative: amend the bylaw to Direct Control District based on S-CI District, which would allow restrictions and specifications to be written into the law that addressed community concerns. The original bylaw already allowed for two comprehensively designed places of worship on site but at a height that accommodated the meetinghouse only, as the temple had not yet been designed. On Thursday, November 26, 2009, the Calgary Planning Commission considered the request for redesignation of the temple site from Direct Control District to Special Purpose-Community Institution District, which would permit the proposed height of the temple and its steeple. 3 The application was reviewed by various City departments and officials before a recommendation was made to the Calgary Planning Commission. On Friday, August 7, 2009, Abbarch Architecture applied for a land use amendment with the City of Calgary to accommodate a "Place of Worship" at 81 Royal Elm Dr NW. In his remarks, Elder Hallstrom said that the purpose of the temple is to "connect men on earth with God in Heaven through promises to God and faithfulness in our lives." He asked members to not just think of dedicating temples to God but to think of dedicating themselves to God through the covenants of the temple. Melchin, the Area Seventy who has played a key role in the events leading to the construction of the temple at this location, was also in attendance. Walker, Executive Director of the Temple Department, conducted the ceremony. Hallstrom of the Presidency of the Seventy. Ground was broken for the Calgary Alberta Temple on Saturday, May 15, 2010, to an audience of about 1,600 Church members, priesthood leaders, civic leaders, government representatives, and cabinet ministers in an inspiring ceremony presided by Elder Donald L. and was being bolted into place by 9:20 a.m. The spire and statue assembly, put together the evening before, was hoisted into the air at 9:05 a.m. A palatable excitement was in the air as hot chocolate was served from pickup trucks, media teams conducted interviews in the parking lot, seminary students-dressed in funky pajamas and wrapped in blankets-burst into The Spirit of God, and neighbors stood on second-story decks snapping photographs and watching the proceedings. On January 12, 2012, hundreds of Calgary members gathered to the Royal Oak Chapel on a dark, wintery morning to witness the raising of the angel Moroni statue atop the Calgary Alberta Temple.
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