Oak Bluffs selectmen on Tuesday again expressed frustration with the ongoing problems at the Nova Vida Church on the corner of Ryan’s Way and Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road, after the church submitted new plans to build a rooming house on the second floor and a large tent in the front yard to hold church services at night during the summer.

Two years ago the Martha’s Vineyard Commission approved plans from the Assembleia De Deus (Assembly of God) Nova Vida congregation to build a 150-seat church on the site with a day care center for 26 children. The church has since changed its name to the Alliance Community Church.

Construction on the new church never started, although neighbors have complained that the property is being used to store landscaping equipment and the building is being used as a rooming house. Two years ago building inspector Jerry Wiener issued a cease and desist order for both issues.

The Martha’s Vineyard Hospital continues to house its day care center in the facility; the arrangement was supposed to be temporary while the new hospital was under construction, but apparently that has changed too and the hospital now plans to keep its day care center in the building permanently.

Last October the town won a court injunction that upheld the cease and desist order. Since then, church services have been held at the old Catholic Church annex in Oak Bluffs near Tony’s Market, but that facility will apparently be unavailable this summer.

Last month the church submitted plans to the Martha’s Vineyard Commission to build a 50-by-50-foot tent in the front yard of the Ryan’s Way property, to hold church services three nights a week in the summer from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. with music and amplification.

That plan is under review as a development of regional impact (DRI).

Meanwhile the church has submitted a plan to the Oak Bluffs planning board to create a rooming house on the second floor of the church.

On Tuesday selectman Ronald Di-Orio expressed his pique at the situation.

“I may be old-fashioned and a little crazy. But I think it is totally outrageous to have the same building used as a day care center and a boarding house, with transient people coming in and out. That makes absolutely no sense to me. And I think the department of child welfare, or somebody, needs to look at this,” Mr. DiOrio said. He continued:

“My question is: where are we on this? We have a cease and desist on other issues. At the very least we should notify the Martha’s Vineyard Commission to say we do not approve [of the tent] . . . to me this is absolutely outrageous behavior on their part.”

Mr. DiOrio said he also heard from several parents that the hospital plans to keep the day care center at the church on a permanent basis. “If that’s the case, we need to send a letter to the hospital and say: you told us this was a temporary situation. Well, is it temporary, or is it permanent? And if it’s permanent then you need to apply for a new license,” he said.

Selectmen agreed to have town administrator Michael Dutton write letters to the hospital, the planning board and the commission.