DULUTH, Minn. (Northern News Now) - On the eve of a special Duluth City Council meeting on the controversial Safe Bay at Vineyard Church, the church held a concert in partnership with Stepping On Up and CHUM to foster positivity.

Thursday the council will either affirm the Planning Commission’s decision to allow a Safe Bay at the church, or reverse it, which would result in the closure of the Safe Bay.

This comes after neighbors of the church in the Kenwood neighborhood filed a lawsuit against the decision.

Therese Presley lives less than a mile away from the church and believes concerns regarding the Safe Bay are overblown.

“Just because you’re poor doesn’t mean you’re a criminal, I don’t think we should make telling the truth a crime, and I don’t think we should make being homeless a

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