Residents of Bella Vista love the narrow little side streets that wind through the neighborhood, offering shelter from the buzz of heavy automobile traffic and providing community space for the cozy lines of back-alley rowhouses.
And they are prepared to defend their little slice of Eden, they told Ori Feibush on Tuesday night. The developer faced a skeptical crowd at the Bella Vista Neighbors Association, who questioned his plan to replace the Christian Street Baptist church with five townhomes,…