Ithaca City School District v. City of Ithaca

Petitioner owns a four-acre parcel of property in the City of Ithaca, Tompkins County. Located on the property is a building formerly known as the Ithaca Gas Works, but now commonly referred to as the Markles Flats Building. The building housed a coal gas manufacturing plant until 1932. In 1978, the building was designated a historical landmark by respondent Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission (hereinafter ILPC). The property is contaminated due to its prior use and was listed by the Department of Environmental Conservation as a class 2 site *1317on the Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste…