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The trick with zoning or historic places is that it is already arbitrary in many cases already.
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Zoning may seem arbitary but unless its applicable it still fails the test.
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The latter board could absolutely have said the structure was "historic" with ZERO indication that the real motive might be something else. "it has unique moldings and must be preserved."
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Which wouldn't have shut down the mosque and wouldn't prevent the same people doing the redevelopment into a bigger mosque/communtiy center
So......
.......Not in the slightest.
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I'm not saying that would not be an abuse of the 1st, it would be.
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Well done for facing that
Thats the problem, throwing the constitution out the window to deal with some hysteria whipped up over a pile of false representations would be an insult to the nation and a gift wrapped prize to the fundy nuts.
Several people have written that allowing the development is amounting to a victory for OBL or whoever runs that small silly organisation nowadays but the reverse is true, stopping the building would be a victory for al-qaida.