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ZONING BOARD’S DENIAL OF A VARIANCE WAS BASED PRIMARILY ON COMMUNITY OPPOSITION; THE DENIAL WAS PROPERLY ANNULLED BY SUPREME COURT (THIRD DEPT).

The Third Department determined the Board of Zoning Appeals improperly denied petitioner’s application for a variance based primarily on community opposition:

… [W]e cannot say that respondent’s determination to deny the area variance was rational. Respondent’s findings reflect that an environmental review of the proposed project concluded that there would be no significant impacts to, among other things, aesthetic or historic resources, the air, land, drainage or open space area. The findings also indicated that the City of Ithaca Planning Board, at best, gave an equivocal opinion about the proposed project. In this regard, the findings stated that the Planning Board was “unsure” whether the requested variance was consistent with the neighborhood and that it was ‘conflicted’ about petitioner’s appeal to respondent. Furthermore, petitioner’s proposed use of the property was a permitted use in the neighborhood. In addition, the record contains comments from individuals in the neighborhood — some of which supported and some of which disapproved of petitioner’s request. Yet, respondent’s consideration of the requisite factors (see Code of City of Ithaca § 325-40 [C] [3] [b] [1]-[5]) rested primarily on the opposing comments provided by those individuals living in the neighborhood … . Given that the views of the community in opposition to petitioner’s request by itself does not suffice to deny a variance, respondent’s determination lacks a rational basis … . Matter of 209 Hudson St., LLC v City of Ithaca Bd. of Zoning Appeals, 2020 NY Slip Op 02311, Third Dept 4-16-20

 

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