{"id":1145,"date":"2014-05-05T16:10:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T20:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.granitestatefutures.org\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2014-05-05T16:10:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T20:10:29","slug":"proposal-to-use-zoning-to-restrict-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2014\/05\/05\/proposal-to-use-zoning-to-restrict-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposal to Use Zoning to Restrict Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again ZONING is the key to restricting our rights, whether they be property rights or in this case FREEDOM OF SPEECH.<\/p>\n<p><em>A plan to ban &#8220;frequent and large gatherings at neighborhood homes&#8221; is a lawsuit waiting to happen, a Fairfax County supervisor predicts. <\/p>\n<p>Officials will get an idea Wednesday when public-comment hearings begin in Virginia&#8217;s most populous county. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe the county is risking a lawsuit and\/or a Constitution challenge by interfering with peoples&#8217; right to assemble,&#8221; Supervisor Pat Herrity said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>The proposed zoning ordinance limits &#8220;group assembly&#8221; at residences to 49 people a day. Such gatherings &#8220;shall not occur more frequently than three times in any 40-day period.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/05\/05\/virginia-proposal-would-limit-size-gatherings-at-private-homes\/\">Virginia proposal would limit size of gatherings at private homes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/watchdog.org\/142488\/faiirfax-home-assemblies\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again ZONING is the key to restricting our rights, whether they be property rights or in this case FREEDOM OF SPEECH. A plan to ban &#8220;frequent and large gatherings at neighborhood homes&#8221; is a lawsuit waiting to happen, a Fairfax County supervisor predicts. Officials will get an idea Wednesday when public-comment hearings begin in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}