Sojourn House

After neighbors complained last year, the Monroe County Board of Appeals denied Sojourn House an application for a zoning variance. It later refused to hear an amended application.

A lawsuit filed by Sojourn House — a nonprofit serving trafficked and exploited women — against the Monroe County Board of Zoning Appeals is back to the local circuit court.

Sojourn House alleges the Board of Zoning Appeals discriminated against program participants by denying the variance request for a home in eastern Monroe County.

A nonprofit serving women who’ve been trafficked and exploited says the county’s denial to grant them a zoning variance is discrimination.

Officials at Monroe County’s Sojourn House for Women plan to seek legal advice, after the Board of Zoning Appeals opted not to hear the nonprofit’s amended appeal for a zoning variance.

The Monroe County Board of Zoning Appeals denied Sojourn House for Women’s zoning request for the property it bought in December on East Kerr Creek Road.

Sojourn House will offer a 24-month residential program, which includes healing, case management, education and career training.