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inlawrev-17989	Whitted, Alex R.	Park51 as a Case Study: Testing the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act	2011	26	.pdf	application/pdf	12086	755	57	”120 Accordingly, “[n]ontraditional religious uses of a building have been considered religious exercise under [this] more expansive view of RLUIPA protection.” Signed into law on September 22, 2000, the25 26 RLUIPA provides protection of land used as “religious exercise” by giving churches or other religious institutions a way to avoid zoning law restrictions27 that impose a “substantial burden” on their property use: No government shall impose or implement a land use regulation in a manner that imposes a substantial burden on the religious exercise of a person, including a religious assembly or institution, unless the government dem onstrates that imposition of the burden on that person, assembly, or institution— (A) is in furtherance of a compelling governmental interest; and (B) is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest.28 the opportunity to contrast this case with one that would presumably not implicate the RLUIPA: “a case like the building of a headmaster’s residence, where religious education will not occur in the proposed expansion.”).	cache/inlawrev-17989.pdf	txt/inlawrev-17989.txt