I find it hard to believe that the Rock megachurch is a good neighbor because of the numerous problems it causes, including traffic, parking and additional trash in our Point Loma neighborhood. While the Rock claims to do 166,000 hours of volunteer work with $2.6 million in one year, that would approximate $15.60 per hour. Maybe Mayor Jerry Sanders could solve the city’s budget woes using this type of “volunteer” service. My husband and I walk the Liberty Station neighborhood every day and gather up trash. On Mondays, after the Rock Church’s weekend services involving thousands of attendees, we typically find church literature and other debris on the streets and parking lots near the church. Some assert that the surrounding community “can’t even tell when church services are occurring.” This is totally false. Five services on Sunday, extra venues during the week and weekends — involving thousands of people — disrupts Rosecrans Street traffic and parking, and places additional burdens on the infrastructure of the surrounding community. Logic suggests bringing as many as 17,000 people into a less than one-mile radius all day at least once a week will have a bit more than zero-impact. I believe the church, with its continually expanding programs and services, detracts rather than adds to Point Loma. The city is giving the Rock Church the chance to establish a religious fiefdom in Point Loma. We are not anti-church; however, it appears that the Rock Church receives preferential treatment above and beyond what other houses of worship receive from the city of San Diego with its mayoral and police support. This support is alluded to from the senior minister of the Rock. We citizens are calling on the city to reopen the conditional-use permit under which the Rock Church operates. It was a hastily-drafted and erroneous document which never addressed the ever-encroaching church. A rock is intended to evoke something strong and solid. It can also be something dangerous if tied around our neck or if used to club us over the head.