Concerns the Exclusive Brethren have not loved their neighbours have led to the development of a traffic management plan.
Glenelg St residents have voiced concerns, saying large numbers of Exclusive Brethren parishioners' vehicles are clogging the street and speeding.
Residents fear for the safety of children and pets on the street, they say. In one case, a vehicle driven by a parishioner struck and killed a pet duck.
The issues prompted members of the church to call a meeting at Bradford School on Monday, where it was decided a traffic management plan would be developed.
Janine Mowat, whose house neighbours the church in Glenelg St, said church members at the meeting had agreed parishioners would travel at 30kmh and be more courteous.
The issues had been going on for some time, she said.
''We are probably as close as you can get. We live right next door,'' she said.
''We have had issues for 22 years.''
Parishioners arriving at the church at 5am on Sundays woke her and her husband and vehicles regularly clogged the streets.
''Throughout the years, it hasn't been an easy thing.''
Another resident of the street said vehicles often travelled at more than the 50kmh speed limit.
''They go quite quickly up and down the street and you can't count them, there's so many,'' the woman, who did not wish to be identified, said.
Last year, her pet duck died after being hit by one of the parishioner's vehicles.
The incident was ''horrible'', she said.
The residents' concerns had nothing to do with religion.
''If it was the Girl Scouts, we would still be concerned,'' she said.
Matt Oskam-Schmidt, another resident of the street, said the meeting, attended by about a dozen residents of the street, four or five church members and Dunedin city councillor Mike Lord, had been ''positive''.
''It was decided we would all work together and produce a traffic management plan,'' he said.
Parishioners had not bothered him often in the past and he was more concerned ''there were other vehicles speeding up and down the street at times''.
Mrs Mowat said she had seen parishioners travelling ''in excess of 60kmh''.
She hoped their behaviour might change after the meeting but it was a matter of ''wait and see''.
''But they are trying,'' she said.
''They aren't using the church nearly as much as they used to.''
''I think the church was genuinely shocked as to what the residents had to say.''
When contacted, a church member asked for questions to be emailed.
However, a reply was not offered by last night.
