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Another Vested Rights Decision From The N.Y. Court of Appeals

By Steven Silverberg and Katherine Zalantis

The Court of Appeals ruled today that owners of a landfill had a vested right to use all 50 acres of their property as a landfill, even though they had only used 3 acres before more restrictive zoning was implemented. In Matter of Jones v Town of Carroll the court found that landfill operations were similar to mining operations and therefore the Court's recent holding in Glacial Aggregates LLC v. Town of Yorkshire, in which the Court concluded that for mining operations the expense of the permitting process, coupled with taking forty truck loads of material for testing, removal of timber and surveying a road and mining areas was sufficient to establish a vested right to the use and manifest an intent to mine the area, was applicable to this case and warranted a finding of vested rights (see our 2/18/10 Blog on the Glacial Aggregates case)...continue to full post

Full post as published by New York Zoning and Municipal Law Blog on June 17, 2010 (boomark / email).