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Old 06-02-2007, 01:27 AM   #20
Vemnagelignc

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It would be interesting in any links that partofme can find regarding this incident. It appears dead wrong to close a business under long established property law decisions for the reasons he cited. Accepting what he said as being accurate, obviously the bar when it was in operation was built without a church being within the distance requirement or else it would have never been allowed to function at all. The church came along and built itself within the distance requirement. This situation would then put the bar outside the law, but since the bar was legal when functioning, and the church's subsequent establishment is what put the bar outside the letter of the law, it should be deemed a 'nonconforming use' and still have been allowed to operate until such time as someone stopped using the property as a bar.
Maybe by "force" they meant really heavy small town societal pressure: as in, the guy didn't really have a choice if he wanted to stay in business... not necissarily a LEGAL reason...
Muslims are forbidden to eat pig.
Uh... we know.
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