{"id":65156,"date":"2017-11-07T17:06:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T22:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65156"},"modified":"2017-11-07T18:23:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T23:23:39","slug":"wbfo-in-buffalo-ny-converting-episcopsal-church-of-the-ascension-into-senior-housing-becomes-confrontational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65156","title":{"rendered":"(WBFO) In Buffalo, NY, Converting Episcopal Church of the Ascension into senior housing becomes confrontational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fight over converting historic Ascension Church at Linwood Avenue and North Street into senior housing turned into something of a confrontation between Buffalo&#8217;s Preservation Board and its Planning Board during Monday&#8217;s Planning Board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The Episcopal Diocese and an affiliate want to convert the century-and-a-half-old church into 28 units of low-income senior housing, wading through regulations on three different levels of government and concern the rules for financing the project might change.<\/p>\n<p>The project has been in the works for more than two years, as various approvals were sought and various design changes were made, shrinking the project and moving a new building.<\/p>\n<p>Charles von Simson said it is still not worth building in his neighborhood and other residents agree.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.wbfo.org\/post\/converting-ascension-church-senior-housing-becomes-confrontational\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fight over converting historic Ascension Church at Linwood Avenue and North Street into senior housing turned into something of a confrontation between Buffalo&#8217;s Preservation Board and its Planning Board during Monday&#8217;s Planning Board meeting. The Episcopal Diocese and an<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65156\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,66,600,380,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-tec-parishes","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65158,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65156\/revisions\/65158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}