This is my hometown, I know all about it...
They put a contact on an uninhabited, dilapidated old house on the edge of town, it hadn’t been lived in for 20 years and had no occupancy permit. It had no sewage or working septic field. It was selling cheap because nobody wanted to pay to have it attached to the town sewage system.
The county only grants a pump and haul permit for an emergency situations, certainly not for new construction or renovation of and old house ready to fall down. It had nothing to do with their desire to build a Mosque. They threatened to sue on day one and had a CAIR rep come to the BOS meeting.
We knew they were playing the discrimination card, but it didn’t fly, and yes we cheered when the permit was denied.
Thanks for the local insight.