ProPublica: Experts: Argue All You Want, Mosque Project on Firm Legal Ground.
“Focus for a moment on basic rule of law: 45 Park Place is located in a C6-4 zoning classification (’General Central Commercial’) where houses of worship are allowed ‘as of right.’ Assuming that this particular proposed house of worship meets the setback, height, and bulk requirements of the Lower Manhattan special zoning district, the city’s denial of a zoning compliance permit would be flagrantly ultra vires: Building inspectors, after all, cannot simply fabricate a new ‘honor-the-9/11-dead” zoning district on the spot’.”
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