Siobhan McLaughlin shows the signs she and some of her neighbors have placed in their front yards in Southlake Hollywood. They are fighting back against plans to tear down a house and replace it with a nonresidential religious building.
“This is a single-family home that the applicants are asking to be demolished and replaced with a non-residential building; the residents do not think it’s appropriate,” McLaughlin said.
Proposed building is a Jewish Mikvah
The proposed building is a Mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath used for spiritual cleansing. The design presented to the planning board shows a modern building with five parking spots in the back. Neighbors say this is not the place for it.
“When Joseph W Young established Hollywood, he made three distinct neighborhoods: residential, business, and the port for industry, because he wanted to make it a happy city,” said Susan Mercier, a local realtor…