So you won't have to daven in a basement..

Rockland's Record has an overview of a Clinton signed law that gives religious housing protection from zoning:

..representing Kiryas Joel real-estate interests, has already invoked RLUIPA in the unfolding battle between the Hasidic community and neighboring towns over Kiryas Joel's plans to expand. When Woodbury residents petitioned last year to create a new village encompassing most of the town, Lynch sent Woodbury Supervisor Sheila Conroy a letter saying the proposal was intended to ward off the high-density housing of Hasidic Jews and would violate RLUIPA and the Fair Housing Act.
..Town of Ramapo, which has a large population of Hasidic and Orthodox Jews, town officials cited RLUIPA last year when they changed their zoning to allow religious dormitories, despite objections from residents and some of Ramapo's villages. The same threat induced one of those villages, Airmont, to surrender its opposition to plans to build a yeshiva with 30 big apartments and dormitories for 170 students in a neighborhood of single-family homes. That still wasn't enough. The federal government sued Airmont under RLUIPA and the Fair Housing Act in June because it doesn't allow religious dormitories in its zoning.
In Monroe, RLUIPA emerged like a magic wand to rescue Congregation Shari Torah's foundering proposal to open a synagogue, school and wedding hall in the former Manhattan Beer Distributors warehouse on Larkin Drive. Schools normally aren't allowed in that heavy-industry zone. But after an initial attempt to portray the school as a permitted trade shop, the congregation came back with arguments about the special status of a religious school. The town Planning Board and its lawyer readily concurred..