Lilburn City Council to Hold Special Meeting Wednesday

Lilburn City Council will hold a special called meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 30, at 7 p.m.

The meeting is for training in the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 and "its application in administering the City’s zoning code related to religious use for any rezoning, special use permits, or other land use determination," city hall said in an emailed statement.

To settle a federal suit against the city in August, Lilburn agreed to train its leaders, employees and managers in the act.

The U.S. Department of Justice had filed a complaint against Lilburn, claiming that the city had discriminated against Muslims in rejecting a rezoning application from Dar-E-Abbas to expand its mosque. The city disagreed that it had discriminated against the group, but said it settled the suit in order to save the cost of fighting it.