The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #73819   Message #1284401
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
29-Sep-04 - 06:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: Religious Freedom vs. Local Zoning Laws
Subject: RE: BS: Religious Freedom vs. Local Zoning Laws
Can't you have house synagogues, the way some Christians have house churches? Or the way Catholics will sometimes have masses in private homes? I've never heard that anyone has to ask permsision for those kinds of things - and after all in this case you can't by definition have problems about excessive parking causing a nuisance, since cars aren't used on the Sabbath by the Orthodox Jews involved.

That's all a very different issue from restrictions on the density of houses in a neighbourhood. In any neighbourhood there is going to be some upper limit for density, and being a good neighbour involves respecting that.