Daily occurrence….blocking lanes, U-turns, stopping in the travel lanes, crossing over double yellow lines turning in/out. Something bad will happen here eventually.

Maybe the city should stop granting permits to them, or start writing tickets to anyone they see breaking the law during events they have. Drivers and pedestrians.

Is anyone from the city going to answer my question? Why is nothing being done about this???

If you are dissatisfied with the responses here, you may want to contact your elected officials (Mayor and City Council) at CityCouncilandMayor@alpharetta.ga.us

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We are aware that some individuals attending events at Hanuman Mandir are engaging in behaviors that may be unduly impacting traffic, and we are in communication with the temple leadership regarding ways to better manage their events to discourage that.

On the matter of parking at the Fiserv facility or the school, while both entities are aware that their property is being used by those attending services and/or events at the Hanuman Mandir Temple, neither the company nor Fulton County Schools has expressed concern over that use of their property. Such shared use of parking is quite common throughout the community. In fact, parishioners of Alpharetta First Baptist Church have long used property owned by the City for parking to attend services.

Regarding attendees at Hanuman Mandir services and events crossing the street outside of a marked crosswalk, this does not represent a violation of law. Under Georgia law, a pedestrian may legally cross a public road outside of a crosswalk or intersection, the rules are just different than what applies if they do so using a marked crosswalk. When a pedestrian crosses the road in a marked crosswalk, drivers must stop and yield the right-of-way to the pedestrian. When a pedestrian crosses the road at a point other than within a marked crosswalk, the pedestrian must yield the right-of-way to all vehicles unless the pedestrian has already entered the roadway. While it is certainly the City’s preference and recommendation that pedestrians cross the street only in marked crosswalks, they are not legally required to do so.

Finally, while the number of attendees attending services and events at Hanuman Mandir has certainly increased since its opening, our Fire Marshal has not observed the approved safe capacity of the facility being exceeded.

We certainly understand the impacts and inconveniences that can accompany a religious facility being located near one's home. Many Alpharetta residents live close to houses of faith across our community, and there are certainly occasions when they are inconvenienced by activities at the facility or when they have observed a pedestrian or motorist accessing or leaving the facility do something that they felt was unsafe. It does not, however, make those activities or behaviors illegal or something in which a local government can or should intervene.

Religious assemblies and institutions enjoy numerous protections under the law to ensure the principles of religious freedom that are the basis of one of the most important rights we all enjoy. To date, we have not observed any violations of law or ordinance at Hanuman Mandir that would waive those protections.

All outstanding requests have been merged to this one. Future requests will also be merged here for all parties to have one point of reference.

They have outgrown this property. The noise and smell of burning items are a nuisance. The inconvenience you speak of is more often than the city thinks. I should not have to hear or smell things from this property. Isn’t there a burn ban in the city year round? And, me and my neighbors are fed up having to keep them from parking on private property. Last night one of my neighbors spend 2 hours telling them to not park in our neighborhood or they would be towed. Some did not pay attention to my neighbor, and parked anyway. Just because where we are located is the reason we have to deal with these issues. This is unacceptable.

We drove by there sometime after midnight a few days ago on the way home and there was something burning and light smoke still coming out of that brownish tent area. Really strong smell and there was nobody visible anywhere in the parking lot or that area and the tent looked closed up from the outside. Looked to be an unattended fire of some origin left burning overnight. That feels incredibly dangerous to anyone around that area.

They are still parking on private property. Why can’t the police officers keep them from entering our neighborhood from Cumming Street??? They could park their police vehicle there to deter them from entering. That’s not too much to ask, IS IT???!!! OR IS IT???!!!