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Lyova Rosanoff

When the 11,000-member Hyde Park Baptist Church tried to bully its neighbors into moving aside for a planned five-story expansion to its existing 500-space parking garage, one by one, everyone caved. Everyone, that is, except Lyova Rosanoff, the 32-year Hyde Park resident whose house sits on the last remaining corner of the block slated for the garage expansion. Now the church is planning to build the garage around her house, a move which would put a sheer 50-foot wall directly behind Rosanoff's back yard. Neighbors are fighting to make sure this Hyde Park hero doesn't become another martyr for the cause.