Hanover Council approved a re-zoning amendment for a local church this week.
Hope Community Church in Hanover is expanding its building and parking area, and Pastor Terry denBok said it is a needed expansion.
"We're building a kids area for the back of the church. We're running out of room for the kids, so the new back area will be for the kids, some offices, and the youth of the church," he said.
There was an issue with the Magwood family farm, whose land is near the church. There has to be a 600-foot buffer zone around farmland where building can not take place, and the church and town have agreed to stay out of the buffer zone and keep the church and parking expansion within the now re-zoned institutional land.
Pastor denBok said that isn't an issue for them at all.
"We're going to knock some walls down in the sanctuary and expand that a little, and build the new section at the back, and we'll be outside that buffer zone, so it's all good," he said.
Pastor denBok added they now plan to start fundraising for the build, which he hopes they can complete in a year or two. Hope Community Church is the new version of the old Hanover Pentecostal Church.
