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Boulder County commissioners say a federal ruling against them in a zoning dispute with a church takes an unreasonable definition of what it means to place a “substantial burden” on the practice of religion. The commissioners made the argument in a filing Friday with the U.S. Court of Appeals. A judge in March ruled in favor of Rocky Mountain Christian Church, which filed a lawsuit accusing the county of violating the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act.
The lawsuit came after the county denied the church’s request to add 132,000 square feet to its campus of 106,000 square feet near Niwot.
