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AviK — davening is not a business. Under Common Law (i.e.the law as it was before the Constitution), you could always reserve land for agricultural purposes. But you couldn’t ban people from praying in their house. That is why there were minyanim (and Catholic services) at a time when the only house of worship were those of the established church. If a right exists at common law, it can only be repealed by a specific statute (not by implication). So a traditional shtiebel (davening in someone’s home, no request for a tax write-off, or a parking lot, etc.) is covered.

Raising livestock was always regulated in cities While most people needed horses and cows, other livestock were a problem and were required to live on farms.