Saturday 4 May 2013

Ruling against Jewish day school

A circuit court judge has sided with the City of Evanston and rejected a Jewish day school's suit challenging the city's refusal to rezone a property on Hartrey Avenue for its use.
Judge Mary Anne Mason ruled Tuesday that the city's concern that the rezoning to permit the non-profit school would cost the city property tax revenue was a legitimate basis for its action.
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She said she accepted the testimony of the school's then-president, Ari Shulman, that when he first told Alderman Ann Rainey, 8th Ward, of the school's plan to move to Evanston from it's location on California Avenue in Chicago, she told him to "keep your Jewish school on California."
...Mason also criticized what she called "inapproriate and unprofessional references" to "un-kosher logic and "parting of the Red Sea" in an email message then zoning administrator Bill Dunkley sent Rainey about the school's request.
Read more: http://evanstonnow.com/story/government/bill-smith/2013-05-02/56058/city-wins-zoning-battle-with-jewish-school

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