RLUIPA prohibits that. They should have competent counsel review these sorts of things before they send them. The elected officials should at least read the pamphlet from the DOJ about the Religious Lands ...Act. https://www.justice.gov/crt/page/file/1070736/dl?inline
I’m sorry I don’t understand the objection. The bells will be too loud (which is ridiculous slash it’s next to an airport so ok sure guys) isn’t the same as you can’t build a shrine at ALL. What is the legal basis for not allowing this?
The “legal” basis is somebody from an HOA deciding they don’t have enough power to trip on so they moved up to the municipal level. Bonus if HOA N@zi is Russian Orthodox or pro-commie atheist…Ukrainian Catholics become the perfect target.
I'm no fan of the mess of US zoning law, but the article does quote the town's attorneys, and it sounds like the core of their argument is that the land they want to build on is zoned as a cemetery, the town has existing legal restrictions about what can/cannot be built on cemetery land, and the limits on the shrine are related to those restrictions (ie. using it only for funeral purposes, not as a general shrine). So from their perspective, presumably stuff like the larger union building down the road being allowed is irrelevant, because it wasn't built on land zoned for cemeteries.
It'll be interesting to see how the courts handle this; I'm no lawyer, but this one actually doesn't read like a clearcut case either way for me
I always love the small local stories. Prayers that our Ukrainian brothers will triumph over the town of Carnegie.
Seems like a quite complicated matter
RLUIPA prohibits that. They should have competent counsel review these sorts of things before they send them. The elected officials should at least read the pamphlet from the DOJ about the Religious Lands ...Act. https://www.justice.gov/crt/page/file/1070736/dl?inline
I’m sorry I don’t understand the objection. The bells will be too loud (which is ridiculous slash it’s next to an airport so ok sure guys) isn’t the same as you can’t build a shrine at ALL. What is the legal basis for not allowing this?
The “legal” basis is somebody from an HOA deciding they don’t have enough power to trip on so they moved up to the municipal level. Bonus if HOA N@zi is Russian Orthodox or pro-commie atheist…Ukrainian Catholics become the perfect target.
I'm no fan of the mess of US zoning law, but the article does quote the town's attorneys, and it sounds like the core of their argument is that the land they want to build on is zoned as a cemetery, the town has existing legal restrictions about what can/cannot be built on cemetery land, and the limits on the shrine are related to those restrictions (ie. using it only for funeral purposes, not as a general shrine). So from their perspective, presumably stuff like the larger union building down the road being allowed is irrelevant, because it wasn't built on land zoned for cemeteries.
It'll be interesting to see how the courts handle this; I'm no lawyer, but this one actually doesn't read like a clearcut case either way for me
"Founded in 1903 by Ukrainian refugees fleeing Communist regimes..." I assume the date is a typo?