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Determination to Deny Area Variance Does Not Require Justification in Each of the Five Statutory Factors

By Steven Silverberg and Katherine Zalantis

The Appellate Division ruled that a zoning board of appeals need not justify the denial of an area variance under all five factors in the balancing test established by Town Law. In Matter of King v/ Town of Islip Zoning Board of Appeals the court upheld the denial of an area variance for a swimming pool finding that there was a rational basis for the decision of the board. The case involved a request to place a pool on a lot which did not meet the Town's zoning requirement that a lot have at least 12,000 square feet before a pool can be constructed. In reversing the Supreme Court decision the Appellate Division found the Supreme Court had erred. Quoting its own recent deciion in Matter of Genser v Board of Zoning and Appeals of Town of N. Hempstead, 65 AD3d 1144 (2d Dept...continue to full post

Full post as published by New York Zoning and Municipal Law Blog on December 25, 2009 (boomark / email).