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Article: Churches, towns clash
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- August 14, 2006
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CAROLYN FEIBEL, STAFF WRITER
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
08-14-2006
Churches, towns clash -- Building plans increasingly lead to opposition, lawsuits
By CAROLYN FEIBEL, STAFF WRITER
Date: 08-14-2006, Monday
Section: NEWS
Edtion: All Editions
When God comes before the planning board, the results are often less than rapturous.
Churches, synagogues and mosques are like other developers: To get what they want, they hire savvy lawyers, mollify anxious neighbors and sometimes fight off lawsuits.
But houses of worship also are tax-exempt. That makes them problematic for many North Jersey towns starved for revenue and leery of overdevelopment.
More and more towns are grappling with the problem of ...