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THE PETITIONERS DID NOT HAVE STANDING TO CHALLENGE THE VILLAGE’S SEQRA NEGATIVE DECLARATION WHICH ALLOWED THE CONSTRUCTION OF 98 APARTMENTS, CRITERIA EXPLAINED (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department, reversing (modifying) Supreme Court, determined the petitioners did not have standing to challenge the negative declaration issued by the village respondents pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA). The village thereby approved the construction 98 apartment units. The Second Department explained the criteria for standing in this context:

“Standing to bring a SEQRA challenge is a threshold issue, and the burden of establishing standing is on the party seeking review of governmental action on the basis of alleged procedural and substantive SEQRA violations” … . “To establish standing under SEQRA, a petitioner must show (1) an environmental injury that is in some way different from that of the public at large, and (2) that the alleged injury falls within the zone of interests sought to be protected or promoted by SEQRA” … . “Economic injury is not by itself within the zone of interests which SEQRA seeks to protect” … .

Here, the petitioners alleged environmental injuries that either were economic in nature … , were not different from those that would be suffered by the public at large … , or were too speculative and conjectural to demonstrate an actual injury-in-fact … . Such allegations are insufficient to confer standing to challenge the adequacy of the Cedarhurst respondents’ environmental review of the overlay district under SEQRA. Contrary to the petitioners’ contention, their property was not sufficiently close in proximity to the proposed development so as to confer a presumption of an injury-in-fact as an adjacent property owner … . Board of Educ. of the Lawrence Union Free Sch. Dist. v Incorporated Vil. of Cedarhurst, 2026 NY Slip Op 05154, Second Dept 9-2-26

Practice Point: Consult this decision for insight into the criteria for standing to challenge a municipality’s SEQRA negative declaration. Here the village approved the construction of 98 apartments and the petitioners did not have standing to challenge the approval.

 

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