What has been done to stop the MIOZ? The MIOZ bill was supposed to be passed a year ago. The Concerned Citizens of the Faith Community and others testified before the County Council, wrote letters and signed petitions against the bill. The bill came back before the Council in 2015, with a few changes. The Council is set to pass the bill in September, when it comes back from its summer recess. The faith community needs your help over the summer to defeat this bill once and for all. At most, the bill should be amended to impose only height and noise restrictions.
How the MIOZ bill treats I-4
The revised MIOZ bill pretends to treat churches more favorably than the original bill because it allows churches (along with restaurants and offices) that are located in the safety zones to expand by 25 percent. Seethe MIOZ bill, CB 42-2015, at pages at-25-26. However, the right to expand does not apply if the church (or restaurant or office) is located in an I-4 (Industrial) or U-L-I (Urban Light Industrial) zone. A fair amount of the land in the safety zones is zoned I-4. Moreover, the MIOZ bill states elsewhere that one of its purposes is to encourage more land in the safety zones land to be rezoned to I-4. See the MIOZ bill at page 17.
Thus, what the MIOZ bill appears to give with one hand, it takes away with the other.
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