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Property Owners Within the Modified Zoning District Have Standing to Challenge Amendment

By Steven Silverberg and Katherine Zalantis

The Appellate Division Second Department modified a lower court decision dismissing an action challenging a zoning amendment, where the lower court had held that petitioners all lacked standing to bring the action. In Matter of Bloodgood v. Town of Huntington the court separated the petitioners into several categories in order to analyze the question of standing from the standpoint of the potential environmental harm to each of the petitioners resulting from the rezoning. The challenge at issue was based upon an alleged failure to take a "hard look" at the environmental impacts of the amendment, as mandated by SEQRA, prior to adopting the zoning amendment. The court held that those owning property within the zoning district that was the subject of the amendment had standing and that "where the challenge is to the SEQRA review undertaken as part of a zoning enactment, the owner of property that is the subject of the rezoning need not allege the likelihood of environmental harm...continue to full post

Full post as published by New York Zoning and Municipal Law Blog on March 02, 2009 (boomark / email).