A Catholic pre-K, elementary and middle school that wants to build a new campus on 36 acres in a residential Suwanee neighborhood has caused a Gwinnett court to consider whether a federal law prohibiting discrimination against religious institutions in zoning laws trumps the city’s right to impose zoning laws that support its land-use plan.
In a two-hour hearing before Gwinnett Superior Court Judge Warren P. Davis, lawyers for Notre Dame Academy said Suwanee city officials, once they learned the school had a contract to buy a site in a residential neighborhood, changed zoning laws to prevent the school from building a campus at that location.
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