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Town Board Should Not Have Considered the Environmental Impact of Only One Small Part of a Revitalization Project, as Opposed to the Entire Revitalization Project, without Explaining the Reasons for Limiting Its Review In Accordance with the Requirements of the State Environmental Quality Review Act

The Second Department determined the town board did not complete the required review under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) in connection with an Eminent Domain Procedure Law (EDPL) 207 proceeding to condemn certain land for drainage and storm water management improvements (drainage plan).  Even though the drainage plan is part of a much larger revitalization plan, the town board considered only the drainage plan in its SEQRA review, a limited review which can be done only if certain SEQRA requirements are met.  The matter was remitted to the town board for compliance with the relevant provisions of SEQRA:

…[U]nder SEQRA, the Town Board was obligated to consider the environmental concerns raised by the entire project (see 6 NYCRR 617.3[g][1]…). If, at this stage, the larger project is merely speculative or hypothetical, then the Town’s separate consideration of the drainage plan would not constitute impermissible segmentation … . However, the respondents are not claiming that the larger project is speculative or hypothetical. Moreover, to the extent that the Town Board concluded that segmenting the environmental review of the drainage plan from that of the larger revitalization project was warranted under the circumstances presented here, it was required under the SEQRA regulations to “clearly state in its determination of significance . . . the supporting reasons[,]” “demonstrate that such review is clearly no less protective of the environment[,]” and to identify and discuss “[r]elated actions . . . to the fullest extent possible” (6 NYCRR 617.3[g][1]). The Town Board failed to do so. Since the Town Board failed to properly comply with SEQRA, the determination and findings must be rejected, and the matter remitted to the Town Board to undertake an appropriate review … . Matter of J. Owens Bldg. Co., Inc. v Town of Clarkstown, 2015 NY Slip Op 04487, 2nd Dept 5-27-15

 

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