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The burghal of Kelso has ordered the Victory Centermost to shut bottomward by Sept. 7, adage churches and association centers aren't accustomed burghal beneath a new burghal code.

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Under an authorization adopted in April 2009, alone "pedestrian-related" uses are accustomed on the aboriginal attic of barrio aural a four-block breadth amid Oak and Maple streets. Those uses accommodate retail stores, restaurants, nightclubs and art galleries, Kelso Association Development Director Mike Kerins said.

"The accomplished abstraction is aloof to acquiesce ... uses that augment off anniversary added that calm would activate downtown," Kerins said Tuesday. "The burghal has a appropriate to advance bread-and-butter development, and that's what we're aggravating to do."

In May, the Victory Centermost confused aback into the architecture at 401 S. Pacific Ave., which avalanche aural the four-block belted area. To abstain the ordinance, Victory Centermost leaders afresh acquired nonprofit cachet beneath the appellation of "cultural and apprenticeship center," which is an accustomed burghal use.

"We do aggregate that a cultural centermost does," said Leo Pisarchuk, pastor of the Kelso Abbey of Truth, which is carefully affiliated with the Victory Center. "We do deliver ability - the adulation of Jesus Christ. ... This is allotment of our ability which cannot be denied to Christians."

If the appellation "cultural center" applies alone to civil uses — or to Muslims who appetite to body a abbey abreast Ground Zero in New York — again the government is acute adjoin Christians, he said.

The Victory Centermost is a Christian admiral accustomed burghal in 2003 that serves adolescent people, the beggared and the vulnerable. Led by Pisarchuk, the Victory Centermost is affiliated with the Kelso Abbey of Truth and teams up with Mountain Ministries biologic rehabilitation centermost at Thanksgiving to augment banquet to hundreds.

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The Victory Centermost was affected to acquisition a new home in 2008 aback the buyer of its South Pacific Avenue storefront, Boyd Real Estate Investments of Seattle, accustomed a Tae Kwon Do flat to booty over the Victory Center's space. Since then, the Victory Centermost has run its agriculture and children's programs out of Kelso Aboriginal Accumulation of God's adolescence centermost at 300 N. Fourth Ave. while analytic for a new atom downtown.

Last spring, the Tae Kwon Do flat confused out and the Victory Centermost confused aback in. Pisarchuk said the admiral plunked bottomward a nonrefundable $15,000 ardent money drop against the closing acquirement of the building, which he termed a absolute breadth for the Victory Center's activities.

"We were on the border of affairs it," Pisarchuk said Tuesday. "We were a few canicule from signing the cardboard aback the burghal alleged us and told us we can't accept what we acclimated to accept in that building."

Kerins said as anon as he abstruse of the Victory Center's intentions he contacted Pisarchuk to acquaint him the burghal afflicted its burghal zoning behavior and that religious accessories no best were allowed. The Victory Centermost should accept arrested with the burghal on accustomed uses afore putting bottomward any drop on the building, Kerins said.

"Zoning ordinances change," he said. "We're not aggravating to run them out. ... I approved to assure (Pisarchuk) as anon as I begin out about it and accept him abstain accomplishing article that he would regret."

Pisarchuk absitively to advance with the Victory Center's affairs and see what he could do to accomplish the bearings work. He saw the burghal would acquiesce a cultural centermost and anticipation "This is what we acclimated to be."

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"Of advance I was actual agitated over this actuality that we cannot be a church, but it absolutely wasn't our capital goal," Pisarchuk said. "Our capital ambition was to accompany aback what the Victory Centermost acclimated to be. Therefore we reopened as a cultural and apprenticeship Christian-based centermost because it was acceptable beneath burghal ordinance, and we had already started to action as we acclimated to and serve meals."

He doesn't anticipate the affiliation is far-fetched, citation the Victory Center's Russian classes, canon classes and accord classes. Also, he said, "When we serve people, we advise bodies generosity, we advise bodies hospitality, we absorb time with bodies aback beneath advantageous bodies arise in."

Kerins isn't affairs it, adage a cultural centermost is a architecture mainly acclimated for music, dance, theater, abstract and the beheld arts, and that, based on the affirmation the burghal has gathered, the Victory Centermost is not a cultural center.

He additionally said burghal advisers accept empiric what arise to be adoration casework Wednesday nights through the Victory Center's ample windows, acquainted that bodies central had their easily in the air and were singing.

"I anticipate they're alteration their tack, because talking to them over the adverse (at Burghal Hall) they said, ‘We're a church. We'll authority abbey services,' and now they're saying, ‘We're not a church,' " Kerins said. "Just because he says it's a cultural centermost doesn't accomplish it one."

Pisarchuk said Wednesday night's singing is allotment of his canon class.

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"There is music, there is singing, there is dancing," he said. "Culture is declared to accept singing and dancing."

Kerins said if the religious elements were removed, the Victory Centermost could analytic be declared as a association center, authentic as a abode for accumulation activities, amusing abutment and added purposes. Even so, association centers aren't acceptable bench in that four-block area, he said.

Last week, Kerins beatific the Victory Centermost a apprehension of zoning abuse adjustment to cease application the architecture or book an address by Tuesday or the burghal would prosecute.

Pisarchuk said he would address to the city's hearings examiner, land-use advocate Mark Scheibmeir of Chehalis. Filing an address costs $1,000. Both abandon would abide their affirmation to Scheibmeir, who would accomplish the final decision.

Even if the hearings examiner rules that the Victory Centermost absolutely qualifies as a cultural center, the Victory Centermost still wouldn't accommodated burghal requirements, Kerins said. Places of accumulation charge a assertive cardinal of parking spaces based on their aboveboard footage, and the Victory Centermost would charge 68 spaces. It has about bristles spaces now.

"If (Pisarchuk) wins the appeal, the abutting affair he can do is appearance us area his 68 parking spaces are," Kerins said.

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