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MUNNS v. MARTIN

No. 63837-3.

930 P.2d 318 (1997)

131 Wash.2d 192

Frank MUNNS; Joseph Doetsch; Nadine Gerky; Denise O'Bryan; Betty Murray; Margaret Heumphreus; and Russell Bergevin, Appellants, v. Robert C. MARTIN, Development Services Manager of the City of Walla Walla; City of Walla Walla, a Municipal Corporation; and Catholic Bishop of Spokane, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Decided January 30, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence Watters, White Salmon, amicus curiae, for National Trust for Historic Preserve.

Michael de Grasse, Walla Walla, for appellants.

Timothy Donaldson, Walla Walla, Michael Geraghty, Spokane, for respondents.

TALMADGE, Justice.

We are confronted yet again with the question of whether a local land use ordinance designed to further historic preservation and aesthetic purposes violates our State's free exercise of religion clause, WASH. CONST., art. I, § 11 (amend.34) when applied to a structure that is part of a church's religious ministry.

Walla Walla's demolition permit ordinance provides a "cooling off period" during which the religious organization is subject...

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