A year ago or so another couple in southern CA had the same problem, when it came down to it, it was all about parking in the neighborhood. The city was claiming they needed a permit not necessarily for the meeting it was the parking.
However, this city may be different.
I find it abhorrent (the permit) regardless how the parking impacts the neighborhood.
Change the facts ever so slightly, so the activity is related to a madrassa or mosque, and see how agreeable you are with the traffic of 20-50 people, not members of the household, twice a week.
Wrong. The fine was not about “parking” or “noise” or disturbance of any kind.
And if anyone bothered to read the article, you would have seen that it is not the issue.
The UNCONSTITUTIONAL statute reads as such.
City officials in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. say Chuck and Stephanie Fromm are in violation of municipal code 9-3.301, which prohibits “religious, fraternal or non-profit” organizations in residential neighborhoods without a permit. Stephanie hosts a Wednesday Bible study that draws about 20 attendees, and Chuck holds a Sunday service that gets about 50.
First Amendment:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
It is a violation of the Constitution, and Liberty 1970, at least, salutes it. Amazing how far we’ve fallen.