December 11- Land Planning

Ten Easy Lessons:  How Local Governments Can Successfully Defend against RLUIPA Claims

This program will briefly describe RLUIPA’s basic provisions, followed by a discussion of at least 10 lessons municipalities and their counsel should heed based on the past 10+ years of RLUIPA litigation.  The key to preventing extremely expensive and highly emotional RLUIPA claims is to proactively plan for religious uses and to educate local decision makers.  This program will provide practical advice on how municipalities can avoid the costly mistakes of other communities.

Speakers:  Dwight Merriam, Dan Mandelker, John Peloso, Karla Chaffe and Diana Neeves