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Event rescheduled for April 24, 2010
due to winter storm
Anyone previously registered for the Feb 6 event
will be automatically registered for the rescheduled
meeting
National Expert to Discuss Growing Threat to Local
Land Use Decisions
Citizens for
West Pikeland’s Future sponsoring a presentation
by national expert
MARCI HAMILTON
The Attack on
Municipalities’ Right to Control Land Use
April
24, 2010
- 9:30 am to 11:30 am
Dining
Hall at
The Montgomery School,
1141 PA Route 113, Chester
Springs
CFWPF has fully underwritten the cost of the
lecture as a public service, but space is
limited – RSVP to
info@wpfuture.org
by April 16
Since Congress
passed the
Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act
of 2000 (RLUIPA), dozens of suits against local
governments across the country have been brought by
religious organizations. The aim of these federal
suits has been to force municipalities to permit
exceptions to local zoning and land use laws. RLUIPA
is game-changing legislation that municipalities
cannot afford to ignore because it usurps local
government rights to enforce land use and zoning
laws. In the words of Professor Hamilton, “[RLUIPA]
attacks land use law, which is the proper
province of cities and towns and states - not of the
federal government. There is not a more direct
attack on state sovereignty on the books.”
Flyer on presentation
Background
on Marci Hamilton
Article by
Professor Hamilton, How
Congress Undermined the American Dream:
The Effect of the Religious Land
Use and Institutionalized Persons Act on Residential
Neighborhoods. |
