...In response to Buatt’s insistence that the ordinance is not illegal, Pam Spees, senior staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights representing the Descendants Project, said, “It doesn’t have to be that the ordinance is violating the law. It’s that the process itself is in violation of the law.”

Citing precedent, Spees said other courts including the U.S. Supreme Court would be able to see the fraud in allowing a zoning ordinance that was changed under fraudulent pretexts to stand. ...

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