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THE ZONING BOARD’S DENIAL OF A STREET FRONTAGE VARIANCE WAS NOT SUPPORTED BY SPECIFIC FACTUAL FINDINGS MAKING COURT-REVIEW IMPOSSIBLE; MATTER REMITTED TO THE BOARD (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing Supreme Court and remitting the matter to the town Zoning Board of Appeals, determined the Board must set forth its reasons for denying a variance. Without specific factual support for the denial in the record, court review is impossible:

… [T]he Board failed to sufficiently set forth the specific factual support in the record, or the specific findings, upon which it relied in denying the requested street frontage variance … . Although at the hearing, certain Board members put on the record their individual grounds for denying a street frontage variance, the Board granted the request for an area variance for the same proposed lot, approving the three-lot subdivision. Thus, the record contains inconsistencies between the written determination and the hearing transcript with respect to the grounds for the Board’s determination.

When the Supreme Court, in effect, affirmed the Board’s denial of a street frontage variance, the court improperly “surmised or speculated as to how or why the board reached its determination” … . Accordingly, absent adequate grounds to support the challenged determination, the judgment must be reversed and the matter remitted to the Board so that it may set forth factual findings in proper form … . Matter of Mancuso v Zoning Bd. of Appeals of the Town of Mount Pleasant, 2025 NY Slip Op 04479, Second Dept 7-30-25

Practice Point: A Zoning Board of Appeals must support its ruling with a specific factual record to allow court review. If the record does not support the ruling, the court is forced to speculate. Here the matter was remitted to the Board to make factual findings.​

 

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