Anitra/law

A win for homeless encampments! In 2006, the city of Woodinville denied a permit application to host a tent city at Northshore United Church of Christ, on the grounds that all temporary use permits were under moratorium. July 16, 2009, the state Supreme Court ruled that they were wrong in doing so: they had a right and duty "to impose reasonable conditions on the Church's project to protect the safety and peace of the neighborhood," but not to categorically prevent the Church from exercising what the City itself concedes is religious practice.

My bestest birthday present. :)