Land use: local planning: religious corporations.

Existing law requires the legislative body of each city and county to, by ordinance, assign the functions of a planning agency to specified entities, as provided. Existing law requires each planning agency to implement the general plan through actions including, but not limited to, the administration of specific plans and zoning and subdivision ordinances. This bill would prohibit any city, county, city and county, or other local governmental agency from, in the enactment or administration of any zoning ordinance or permitting process, discriminating against any religious corporation, as described, or any religious corporation's affiliation with a superior religious body or general church.