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Standing to Seek Review of Site Plan Approval Based Upon Interest in Protecting the Ecological Health of a Body of Water Adjacent to Petitioner’s Property.

Petitioners had standing to seek review of a planning board’s site plan approval.  Petitioners, who lived one half mile from the site, alleged “direct harm, injury that is in some way different from that of the public at large … .  Their allegations that the approved construction project will harm their regular use, enjoyment, and interest in protecting the ecological health of Stony Brook Harbor, which is adjacent to their property, are sufficient to confer standing …”.  Matter of Shepherd vs Maddaloni, 2011-09750, Index No. 7867/11, Second Dept. 2-27-13

 

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