The Oyster Bay Town Board on Tuesday changed a zoning law it cited in its decision to deny a Bethpage mosque's bid to triple its footprint.

The board voted 7-0 to extend a formula it had established for parking space requirements at religious institutions to buildings with secular uses. The law, initially implemented in 2022, requires the number of parking spaces at a building to be based on total occupancy, rather than the number of square footage or the number of seats in the building.

Muslims on Long Island, the owners of the Masjid Al-Baqi mosque on Central Avenue, had cited the requirement in its January lawsuit against the town for allegedly violating federal religious land use laws. The measure effectively created tougher standards for religious facilities, lawyers for the mos

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