Welch v. Zoning Board of Appeals

—Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of the respondent, which denied a variance to petitioner. In 1974, petitioner, as president of the corporation, acquired a 4.03-acre parcel of land in the Town of Lloyd, Ulster County. Improved by a residence that contained one or two apartments, the property conformed to its pre-existing "R Vi" zoning classification, However, in 1977 petitioner applied for a use variance that would permit construction of a five- or six-unit…