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THE ZONING REGULATION WHICH REQUIRES PAYMENT TO AN “ARTS FUND” OF $100 PER SQUARE FOOT FOR CONVERSION OF “JOINT LIVING-WORK QUARTERS FOR ARTISTS” TO FULLY RESIDENTIAL USE IS AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL TAKING (FIRST DEPT).

The First Department, reversing Supreme Court, found unconstitutional a NYC Zoning Regulation (ZR) which required artists who wish to convert their “joint living-work quarters for artists (JLWQA)” to residential use to pay $100 per square foot to an “Arts Fund.” The fund did not have a sufficient connection with the government’s land-use interest:

The ZR amendment passed by the City, in establishing the Special SoHo-NoHo Mixed Use District (SNX District), provides current JLWQA unit owners a pathway to convert uses but also requires them, if and when they seek conversion, to contribute “$100.00 per square foot of floor area to be converted” to the Arts Fund, with annual increases … . “[T]he payment of such non-refundable contribution shall be a precondition to filing for or issuing of any building permit allowing the conversion [of] a joint living-work quarters for artists to a residence” … .

The Arts Fund fee constitutes a permit condition for which the “two-part test modeled on the unconstitutional conditions doctrine” applies … . Thus, the permit condition “must have an ‘essential nexus’ to the government’s land-use interest,” which “ensures that the government is acting to further its stated purpose” … , and the condition “must have ‘rough proportionality’ to the development’s impact on the land-use interest” … .

In applying the two-part test, we find that petitioners are entitled to a declaration that the Arts Fund fee requirement constitutes a taking without just compensation (US Const Amend V; NY Const art I, § 7[a]). Matter of Coalition for Fairness in Soho & Noho, Inc. v City of New York, 2024 NY Slip Op 06118, First Dept 12-5-24

Practice Point: Here a zoning regulation which required payment of a fee of $100 per square foot to an “Arts Fund” as a precondition for a building permit was deemed an unconstitutional taking.

 

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