MADAIN v. City of Stanton

SILLS, P. J., Concurring.

I agree with and have signed the majority opinion. I write separately, however, to point out the interesting problem in land use law on which this case ultimately centers:

First, over this past decade churches and congregations have increasingly chosen to hold services in industrial parks. A small body of case law, of *1291which today’s opinion now becomes a part, has grown out of that trend.1 A federal statute also looms over such efforts, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, often called RLUIPA. (42 U.S.C. § 2000cc et seq.)

Second, however,…