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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
Listowner of HISTARCH, SUB-ARCH, SPANBORD
Contributing Editor, Anthropology page, http://www.suite101.com
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