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ZONING LAWS WHICH PROHIBITED DEFENDANT FROM USING HIS RURAL-DISTRICT LAND TO HOST A LARGE, THREE-DAY MUSIC AND CAMPING EVENT DID NOT VIOLATE HIS FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS AND WERE NOT VOID FOR VAGUENESS (CT APP).

The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge DiFiore, determined that the town zoning laws which prohibited a landowner from holding a three-day music and camping on his rural property did not unconstitutionally restrict his First Amendment rights and were not void for vagueness:

Defendant Ian Leifer owns a 68-acre property containing a single-family home and undeveloped land within the boundaries of plaintiff Town of Delaware. In 2016, he planned to sponsor on the property a three-day event named “The Camping Trip” — which he had hosted twice before in previous years — over the course of an August weekend. … Meals would be provided at the site through food truck vendors and a religious nonprofit organization would lead in Jewish religious ceremonies. … [P]reparations included off-site parking at a local school and rental of shuttle buses to transport attendees to the event site, a party tent for inclement weather, security at both the parking lot and event, $2,000,000 event insurance, 16 portable toilets, a 30-cubic-yard dumpster, EMTs on site and an ambulance on standby. * * *

None of the principal or accessory uses specifically permitted in the Rural District encompass defendant’s three-day outdoor music and camping festival. Such an event cannot reasonably be characterized as a customary accessory use associated with defendant’s single-family residence. … [U]nless the provisions are unconstitutional, his proposed use is clearly prohibited in the Rural District under the Town of Delaware Zoning Law and the Town was entitled to enjoin the event … . * * *

Defendant’s constitutional challenges … largely focus on a single land use defined in the Zoning Law that is prohibited in the Rural District but permitted in other zoning districts: the “theater” land use. This approach misses the mark because the Town did not rely exclusively on the theater provision but cited the Zoning Law as a whole to show that certain uses are prohibited in a Rural District but expressive aspects of the event, such as the musical presentations, are permitted in other districts. Considering this context, neither the theater provision, nor the Zoning Law as a whole, violates defendant’s constitutional rights. Town of Del. v Leifer, 2019 NY Slip Op 08446, CtApp 11-21-19

 

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