Arlington County, Virginia has a prime location for a new affordable housing development. Officials hope that subsidizing a new 10-story development with 8 floors of apartments will ease the crisis caused by rapidly escalating property values. There's just one potential problem: the bottom 2 floors they are building will be a new sanctuary and church building for First Baptist Church of Clarendon. A resident has filed suit, claiming the arrangement violates the separation of church and state. The Washington Post has more:

[Peter] Glassman's complaint alleges that the subsidy per unit -- $660,000 -- is excessive and proves that the county wanted to bail out the church. In court papers, county attorneys call the claims a "tangled web of allegations." The county says that its portion of the subsidy is $186,500 an apartment and that a separate nonprofit group, the Views at Clarendon, will develop and manage the apartments. Three church members serve on the nonprofit group's seven-member board.
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Integrating a church sanctuary with condominiums or offices is just beginning to happen in many communities, but a factor in the Clarendon lawsuit is how the church is incorporated into the new development's design. The church and the housing above it will share an entrance, a lobby, an elevator and other elements.

"Residents will literally pass through the church's property, overlook the church's steeple and be subject daily to the church's message," the suit says.

Read the complaint here.