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CAUSES OF ACTION SEEKING TO ENFORCE A ZONING ORDINANCE AND COVENANTS IN ANOTHER’S DEED PROPERLY DISMISSED, CRITERIA EXPLAINED.

The Second Department, in affirming the dismissal of the causes of action, explained when a resident can bring a private action to enforce a zoning ordinance and restrictive covenants in another’s deed:

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The Supreme Court also properly granted that branch of the defendants’ motion which was pursuant to CPLR 3211(a)(3) to dismiss the plaintiff’s third cause of action, which was to enjoin alleged violations of the Code of the Town of Islip and restrictive covenants and to recover damages incidental to the alleged violations, as the plaintiff lacks standing to bring such a cause of action. Generally, to maintain a private action at common law to enjoin a zoning violation, a plaintiff must establish that he or she has standing to do so by demonstrating that special damages were sustained due to the defendant’s activities. To establish special damages, it is necessary to show that there is some depreciation in the value of the premises as real property arising from the forbidden use… . The plaintiff here failed to show that there was a depreciation of the character of the immediate neighborhood, or a depreciation in the value of her premises.

Furthermore, as stated previously, the plaintiff lacks standing to enforce restrictive covenants regarding the defendants’ property. The language in the deed from the original grantor indicates that the covenants were not imposed for the benefit of the owner of neighboring land. Therefore, the plaintiff may not enforce the covenants as a third-party beneficiary … .. Moreover, these covenants were not part of a common development scheme created for the benefit of all property owners within the subject development … . Wheeler v Del Duca, 2017 NY Slip Op 05116, 2nd Dept 6-21-17

 

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