the lds church became debt free in 1907.
the lds church became debt free in 1907.
when did the lds church become debt free?
1907
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in april 1999, the salt lake city council voted 5 to 2 along lds membership lines to sell to the lds church the segment of main street that lay between temple square and the lds church office buildings for $8.1 million. the church planned to build a large plaza on the land as well as a parking structure below. there was much public outcry about the sale of public lands to a private organization, but a church representative assured residents that the plaza would be a "little bit of paris", a characterization that would be used against the lds church later. concerns also lay in plans to ban such activities as demonstrations, skateboarding, sunbathing, smoking, and other activities it considered "vulgar". the utah aclu believed that these restrictions were incompatible with the pedestrian easement that the city retained over the plaza. aclu attorneys claimed this made the plaza into a public free speech forum. nonetheless, the property was sold to become the main street plaza. after the utah district court ruled against the aclu, they were vindicated by the 10th circuit court in the fall of 2002. scrambling to satisfy residents, rocky anderson offered a plan for "time and place" restrictions on speech as suggested by the court. however, the lds church held firm to get the easement rescinded. although "the salt lake tribune" backed the mayor's initial plan, the city council disliked it. in its place, anderson offered to waive the easement in exchange for west side property from the lds church to build a community and a commitment of donations for it. all parties agreed to the arrangement, and the main street plaza is now wholly owned by the lds church. some suppose anderson's compromise was an effort to strengthen his 2003 re-election campaign among latter-day saints and west side residents. both groups tended to have less favorable impressions of the former mayor.
history of salt lake city