Legal Opinion
Town of Lysander v. Hafner
New York Court of Appeals
Decided October 18, 2001PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Levine, J.
Defendants own and operate a commercial farm in the Town of Lysander, in an “agricultural district” created pursuant to Agriculture and Markets Law § 303. This case arises from defendants’ attempt in 1999 to install several single-wide mobile homes for housing migrant workers on the farm. The mobile homes do not comply with a Town zoning ordinance that “all one-story single family dwellings” have a minimum living area of 1,100 square feet (Town Zoning Code § 139-56 [A]).
The central issue before us is whether the zoning ordinance, as applied to defendants’…
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