Janesville Plan Commission approves cell tower
By
BETH WHEELOCK
Monday, March 2, 2009
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Despite some complaints from neighbors, the Janesville Plan Commission gives the thumbs-up for a conditional use permit for a cell tower on Mount Zion Avenue.
The tower is planned for the St. Mark's Church property near I-90. Commissioners and City Council members Kathy Voskuil and Tom McDonald voted against the project. After Monday's meeting, Voskuil and McDonald questioned whether the city would keep allowing cell towers to be built instead of having the cellular providers create a different technological solution.
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Mar 3, 2009 at 6:42 a.m.
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The City Council had no choice. Under RLUIPA the church can do whatever it wants. If the City had voted to stop the tower, they could possibly have been threatened with a law suit causing taxpayers to become even more irate. A religious property owner given special exemptions over secular property owners (residents or businesses) for secular advantages is blatant discrimination, not "religious freedom". RLUIPA MUST be overturned so all property owners - secular entities and religious institutions alike - once again live under ONE uniform Constitutional level of law without either being given special privilege.
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