Lakewood, Ohio Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses, Inc. v. City of Lakewood, Ohio

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• deciding zoning ordinance prohibiting construction of church in resi dential district is “purely secular act” that results in only “indirect financial burden”
• holding zoning ordinance did not infringe on free exercise where it did not prevent congregation from practicing its faith in other “homes, schools, other churches, or meeting halls throughout the city.”
• finding that a local ordinance did not substantially burden a church’s free exercise rights by preventing the church from constructing a new church in just ten percent of a city
• banning religious worship from residential area for traffic reasons doesn’t violate the First amendment, even if individual exceptions were possible for others
• holding similar concerns are legitimate in the First Amendment context
• upholding a zoning ordinance that limited locations where churches could be built where there was no suggestion that building in the approved zone would impose a prohibitive cost or interfere with the religious mission of the Church

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