Sounds like a sensible zoning law to me, but it might be struck down on first amendment grounds if similarly sized stadiums and such are not also banned. It is generally not permissible to specifically target religious organizations without having a somewhat broader purpose in mind. (Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hileah)
Good idea, if you ask me...
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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