Opinion ID: 3025336
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Does the Redevelopment Plan Survive Rational

Text: Basis Review? As a neutral, generally applicable law, the Plan is not subject to strict scrutiny. Even if Lighthouse had shown that the Plan incidentally burdened its right to free exercise of religion, it would only have to satisfy rational basis review in order to be deemed constitutional. “[I]f [a] zoning law only incidentally burdens the free exercise of religion, with the law being both neutral and generally applicable, it passes constitutional muster unless the law is not rationally related to a legitimate government interest.” San Jose Christian College, 360 F.3d at 1031. Under rational basis review, “[a] statute is presumed constitutional, and the burden is on the one attacking the legislative arrangement to negative every conceivable basis which might support it, whether or not that basis has a foundation in the record.” Heller v. Doe, 509 U.S. 312, 321 (1993) (internal citations and quotation marks omitted). The regulation must be reasonable and not arbitrary and it must bear “a rational relationship to a [permissible] state objective.” Belle Terre v. Boraas, 416 U.S. 1, 8 (1974). The same analysis applies here to the Plan; the Plan is valid under rational basis review.