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LOCAL LAW WHICH HAD BEEN DECLARED VOID COULD NOT BE THE BASIS FOR DETERMINING WHETHER PETITIONER’S USE OF THE LAND FOR MINING WAS A VALID PREEXISTING NONCONFORMING USE (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department determined that a local law which had been declared void could not be the basis for determining whether the petitioner’s use of the property for mining was a valid preexisting nonconforming use. Once the local law had been declared void the prior law went back into effect. That law was not changed until 2015. So the 2015 law is the proper basis for determining whether the property is subject to a valid preexisting nonconforming use:

Central to petitioner’s contention is the general premise that the judicial nullification and voidance of an ordinance revives, by operation of law, the prior ordinance in effect before the null and void law was adopted … . Even more fundamental, a voided law can have no lasting effect … . To that end, “a void thing is no thing. It changes nothing and does nothing. It has no power to coerce or release. It has no effect whatever. In the eye of the law it is merely a blank, the same as if the types had not reached the paper”… . Therefore, inasmuch as an annulled law can have no lingering effect, petitioner is entitled to have its nonconforming use rights evaluated as of the effective date of the 2015 ordinance, unless, of course, that ordinance is also annulled prior to any such determination … . To hold otherwise would not only give the annulled Local Law No. 2 complete effect, i.e., render mining a nonconforming use in petitioner’s zoning district as of the date of the illegally-enacted law, but it would incentivize municipalities to rush to enact local laws with any number of infirmities, including SEQRA violations. Matter of Cobleskill Stone Prods., Inc. v Town of Schoharie, 2019 NY Slip Op 01272, Third Dept 2-21-19

 

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February 21, 2019
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