The City Council is expressly authorized to avoid the preemptive force of any provision of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) by any one or more of the following actions:
A. Changing the policy or practice that results in a substantial burden on religious exercise;
B. Retaining the policy or practice and exempting the substantially burdened religious exercise;
C. Providing exemptions from the policy or practice for applications that substantially burden religious exercise; or
D. Any other means that eliminates the substantial burden on religious exercise. (Ord. 2018-16, 12-4-2018)