City Votes to Move Girls Dorm

By COLlive reporter

After hearing the impassioned pleas of almost 50 students, teachers, parents and Chabad rabbis,

The Coral Springs City Commission voted 4-1 to deny Chabad’s Rohr Bais Chaya Academy’s dormitory in a residential neighborhood on Thursday.

“The use of the property is the issue,” Commissioner Larry Vignola said before the vote. “It’s not about the girls. It’s not about religious beliefs.”

This decision overturns a vote by a planning and zoning board in favor of the school. The dorm housed up to 40 girls who were bused to the Chabad school in Tamarac, reported the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

The girls now are living with Orthodox families in the area, the newspaper reported.

A member of the Rohr Bais Chaya Academy’s administration told COLlive.com that “we continue to function and have already begun registration for the school and dorm for next year.