Section 45 Religious Entities

• Library: Urban Development Subdivisions, and Annexations (2011 Ed.)

In Missouri, enabling authority for zoning controls does not fully extend to the regulation of churches and houses of worship. Congregation Temple Israel v. City of Creve Coeur, 320 S.W.2d 451 (Mo. 1959); Vill. Lutheran Church v. City of Ladue, 935 S.W.2d 720 (Mo. App. E.D. 1996) (city could not require special use permit for expansion of church facilities). But seeVill. Lutheran Church v. City of Ladue, 997 S.W.2d 506 (Mo. App. E.D. 1999) (city did not violate church's right to the free exercise of religion by requiring church to apply for special use permit, especially when church voluntarily applied for...