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> >COURT UPHOLDS CHURCH EXEMPTION FROM PRESERVATION LAW 02/05/99 SACRAMENTO
> >(AP) _ A state law exempting religious organizations from local landmark
> >preservation laws, and letting them tear down and replace historic church
> >buildings, is constitutional, a state appeals court has ruled.
> Overturning
> >a judge's decision, the 3rd District Court of Appeal said Thursday that
> the
> >law does not provide improper state assistance or endorsement of
> religion.
> >``The state has not assisted religious organizations but has merely
> stepped
> >out of their way,'' said Presiding Justice Robert Puglia in the 3-0
> ruling.
> >Puglia recently retired from the court but is completing work on cases he
> >heard before his retirement. The 1994 law stops cities and counties from
> >enforcing historic landmark preservation laws against noncommercial
> >property owned by religious organizations. A religious organization can
> >alter or demolish a historic building if it decides the change is
> necessary
> >for religious or financial purposes. The law was challenged by the city
> of
> >San Francisco and private landmark-preservation groups. They won a ruling
> >from Sacramento Superior Court Judge Joe Gray that the law established an
> >unconstitutional state preference for religious organizations. But the
> >appeals court said the law merely removes a potential burden from the
> >practice of religion by allowing religious organizations to decide which
> of
> >their buildings should be preserved. Puglia said other courts have
> reached
> >varied conclusions on whether the enforcement of landmark preservation
> laws
> >against churches violates freedom of religion. The state was entitled to
> >avoid a potential conflict by granting a religious exemption, he said. He
> >noted that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a law exempting religious
> >employers from claims of religious discrimination. Justices Coleman
> Blease
> >and Rodney Davis joined the decision.
> >
> >
> >APPEALS COURT AFFIRMS INJUNCTION PREVENTING HOUSE FROM BEING MOVED
> 02/04/99
> >11:17PM BLACK HAWK, Colo. (AP) _ The Colorado Historical Society has won
> >another round in its battle with Black Hawk over the location of the
> >historic Lace House, an 1864 home that is considered one of the best
> >examples of the Carpenter Gothic style in the West. The Colorado Court of
> >Appeals on Thursday affirmed a preliminary injunction issued by in 1997
> by
> >a Gilpin County judge that prevented Black Hawk from moving the home from
> >its original location. The court ruling upheld the validity of a
> contract
> >reached between the city and the society in 1976 that provided a $32,000
> >grant for restoration work on the home. In return, Black Hawk agreed to
> >restore and preserve the home for 30 years. However, the pressure from
> >developing casinos in Black Hawk has left the historic site a tiny island
> >in a sea of parking lot and casino construction. Black Hawk officials
> >proposed moving the Lace House to another location, where a ``historic
> >village'' is being reassembled. The Historic Society sued, and was given
> >the injunction on a breach of contract claim. The appeals court said
> Black
> >Hawk cannot invalidate the contract it signed in 1976 just by adopting an
> >ordinance. ``It (the contract) involves acts of a city in its proprietary
> >capacity in which it acts for the private advantage of its residents and
> >for itself as a legal entity,'' the court said. ``The City was under no
> >duty to preserve the Lace House, but instead acted at the behest of its
> >citizens. ``Accordingly, the City is subject to the same rules of
> business
> >dealing that apply to a private party,'' the court said. ``The contract
> >cannot simply be abrogated or ignored and must be given effect in light
> of
> >its essential purpose.'' Black Hawk, the most successful of three
> gambling
> >sites in Colorado, has seen hundreds of millions of dollars in casino
> >development since gambling was approved by voters in 1990. However, the
> >National Trust for Historic Preservation singled that area out as among
> the
> >nation's 11 most endangered historic places because of the threat that
> >development will destroy the historically important buildings and sites
> in
> >the old gold mining district. Black Hawk's casinos average 80,000 square
> >feet to 100,000 square feet in size and dwarf most of the original
> >mining-era structures. The Lace House, a 25-foot tall wooden,
> >gingerbread-style structure, is surrounded on four sides by casino
> >development and is just up the street from a new casino of more than
> >400,000 square feet. It sits on an 80-foot wide and 100-foot deep lot. A
> >legislative proposal that would have required input from the historical
> >society if casinos exceed a certain size was defeated in the Colorado
> >Legislature last year. Eagle Gaming, which owns the Canyon Casino in
> Black
> >Hawk, has argued the building would fare better as part of a ``historic
> >village.'' Eagle offered $3 million to gather buildings of historic merit
> >in the proposed village.
> >
> >
> >RESTORATION PLANNED FOR HISTORIC LEGACY AT FORT LOWELL PARK 02/04/99
> >10:30PM TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) _ The rich historic legacy encapsuled in a
> tiny
> >acreage on one edge of Fort Lowell Park is getting new attention. A
> >three-acre parcel acquired by Tucson in the mid-1980s includes remnants
> of
> >a century-old cavalry corral, a much-older Hohokam settlement and a
> >1940s-vintage adobe home. New plans call for the home to be restored.
> >``When it's finished, it will be used for exhibits, as an adjunct to the
> >Fort Lowell Museum,'' said David Faust, curator of the museum that
> focuses
> >on the Army presence here during the Apache Wars. The Indian settlement
> >will be excavated. Faust envisions a reconstructed pit house or houses,
> >depending on what evidence is found, that could show visitors how the
> >Hohokam lived from the mid-1100s to the mid-1300s. The corral wall,
> >meanwhile, will serve as a reminder that Tucson wouldn't be where it is
> >were it not for the cavalry. ``The Tucson presidio was a Spanish cavalry
> >post, with most of the soldiers having a string of five or six horses.
> The
> >Tucson (Army) Depot (during the Apache Wars), the Confederates who came
> >here were mounted, the California Volunteers, Fort Lowell _ it was
> cavalry
> >all the way.'' Besides the stable, there were a blacksmith shop, a
> granary,
> >a storage building and a room for stable orderlies. Remnants of an
> >8-foot-high adobe corral wall remain.
> >
> >
> >http://www.azstarnet.com/public/dnews/ld0469.html Plans to close two
> parks
> >and raid two user-fee recreation funds to help balance the state budget
> >drew protests yesterday. The two parks on the hit list are MacFarland
> >Historical in Florence and Homolovi Ruins in Winslow. None of the
> proposed
> >cuts or transfers are in Republican Gov. Jane Hull's proposed budget, and
> >speaker after speaker at yesterday's hearing endorsed her version over
> the
> >one drafted by the JLBC staff under the direction of GOP legislative
> leaders.
> >
> >http://www.detnews.com/1999/autos/9902/06/02050048.htm Henry Ford's
> >original Model T plant, where the seeds of the moving assembly line were
> >sown, could get a new lease on life as an interactive automotive museum.
> >The facility was where the first 12,000 Model T's were built in 1908
> before
> >production moved to Highland Park.
> >
> >
>
> Anita Cohen-Williams
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