Religion

God has finally come to Belltown. Tabella, Mayor Greg Nickels's least favorite nightclub, has been purchased by the God-fearing, homosexuality-curing, dinosaur-disbelieving folks at Mars Hill Church. Tabella—often blamed for violence in the neighborhood—had been the focus of Mayor Nickels's war on nightlife. The city has been working to revoke Tabella's license ever since the club received citations for five liquor violations in September. Mars Hill, which already has campuses in Ballard, Shoreline, Wedgwood, and West Seattle, will purchase the Belltown site for $3.95 million. JONAH SPANGENTHAL-LEE

Restrictions

Environmental groups including Futurewise, the Transportation Choices Coalition, and the People's Waterfront Coalition are supporting Mayor Greg Nickels's plan to limit commercial, retail, and residential development in lands zoned industrial because, in the words of the PWC's Cary Moon, "Part of smart growth and density and compact communities is keeping good jobs in the city." Currently, the city estimates that industrial businesses bring in $31 billion in revenues every year; the vacancy rate for industrial land, meanwhile, is a very low 5 percent. Pushing industrial uses out to places like Kent isn't the answer, Moon says; building density in underutilized residential parts of Seattle—where 75 percent of residential land is zoned single-family—is. ERICA C. BARNETT