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Zoning Board?s Quasi-Judicial Administrative Decision is Subject to Res Judicata Dismissal

By Steven Silverberg and Katherine Zalantis

The appellate division dismissed a challenge to the continuation of a condition to a variance on the grounds that the challenge is barred by the doctrine of res judicata. In Matter of Calapai v. Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of Babylon, the court held that a variance conditioned upon the removal of the building modifications in the event of a change of circumstances was a condition which could have been challenged when the variance was granted in 2000. Therefore, this challenge to a 2007 renewal of the variance, on grounds that could have been raised in 2000, is barred. The petitioner applied to convert a garage to living space for her disabled son in 2000. The variance was conditioned upon the requirement that the modifications to the structure be removed upon a change of circumstances and at such time that the structure also be restored to a garage use...continue to full post

Full post as published by New York Zoning and Municipal Law Blog on January 05, 2009 (boomark / email).