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The Santa Clara County board of supervisors unanimously upheld the site permit for the Cordoba Center mosque and cemetery in San Martin Tuesday, and denied three appeals to the project that has generated sometimes heated controversy in South County in recent months.

The Santa Clara County planning commission will hear three appeals to the Cordoba Center mosque project in San Martin Tuesday.

Three parties, including the South Valley Islamic Community, have filed an appeal in response to the Santa Clara County planning commission’s decision to approve the Cordoba Center use permit with conditions in San Martin, according to county staff.

After months of arguing over county building codes in an effort to keep the proposed Cordoba Center Islamic mosque and cemetery out of San Martin, the Gilroy/Morgan Hill Patriots are turning the debate to the perceived threat of an Islamic presence in the South Santa Clara County with a public event this Saturday.

Developers of the proposed Cordoba Center Islamic mosque and cemetery in San Martin said they jumped over the “first hurdle” with the Santa Clara County planning commission’s approval of the use permit for the property where they plan to build a new religious institution.

The Santa Clara County Planning Commission approved plans to build the Cordoba Center in San Martin – a mosque, cemetery and meeting place for the South Valley Islamic Community – at its meeting late Thursday afternoon, according to Hamdy Abbass, spokesman for SVIC who attended the meeting in San Jose.

Nearly 200 residents attended a Santa Clara County committee meeting Tuesday night to voice an impassioned mix of concerns, opposition, support and questions regarding the proposed Cordoba Center mosque project – which would serve San Benito residents and is set for consideration by a planning commission later this week.

Nearly 200 South Santa Clara County residents attended a planning advisory meeting Tuesday night to voice an impassioned mix of concerns, opposition, support and questions regarding the proposed Cordoba Center mosque project which will be considered by the county’s planning commission Thursday.

A lengthy report by county planning staff recommends the approval of the Cordoba Center mosque and community center project in San Martin, and might put to rest the many worries and questions that residents have submitted in response to the proposal.

The South Valley Islamic Community is preparing to make a crucial push for their long-awaited Cordoba Center project in San Martin to county planners, and is expecting a vocal crowd of local residents to show up to a series of upcoming community meetings.