The Property has a certificate of occupancy as both a yeshiva and a dorm for up to 36 high school students ages 13-18. The new yeshiva wants to increase the number of student to 96 and the age to 18-26. So how can they say no dorm on Logan Road when the property already has a certificate of occupancy as a dorm.
One of the claims is there will be “96 undocumented students wandering the neighborhood and their daughters wouldn’t be safe”:
A)The students will be restricted to the yeshiva property
B)I have never heard a case of Yeshiva student abusing a non-Jewish females.
C) All the student are either Americans or have documents.
D) Questions as to safety should be referred to the Police Dept. not a Zoning Board.
If the Yeshiva goes to Federal Court using the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act they will win. People’s environmental concerns will lose even though they are valid claims, because they are being lumped into with safety claims and using the zoning laws to restrict a religious organization as shown above is illegal.