The rapidly growing city of Vineyard has had only one Latter-day Saint chapel building at the very southern edge of the city by the Sleepy Ridge Golf Course, which is in Orem. On Wednesday, the city’s Planning Commission took up the application of a second chapel.

After discussion and a site tour, the conditional-use permit and site plan for the church was approved.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is proposing to build what it is calling the Sunset Stake Center, at 212 N. 220 West in the core of the city at the Water’s Edge development.

The church would be built on 3.8 acres of land, according to Morgan Brim, city planner.

Brim said the church also owns a 9-acre parcel at approximately 575 South and Geneva Road. He is not aware of any plans at this time for that parcel.

Vineyard has grown from around 400 residents to nearly 15,000 or more in the past decade and that growth is expected to continue in the foreseeable future.

“The church has filed for a site plan and conditional-use permit,” Brim said. The commission toured the property Wednesday afternoon prior to the commission meeting.

Brim indicated there had been no negative communication from members of the public on the project.

“We’d like them to work faster, but we don’t know their timeline,” Brim said. He noted the church usually solidifies the property issues and has a construction and funding process.

The growing church population in Vineyard has caused wards to bust at the seams and then divide. It is hoped this new building will take some of that load. Currently members use meetinghouses in Orem for church meetings.