County of Tompkins v. Powers

This is a proceeding under article 78 of the CPLR to review a determination of the Board of Zoning Appeals of the Town of Ithaca, New York.

The County of Tompkins, in pursuance of the action of its Board of Supervisors, has contracted to purchase certain property in the Town of Ithaca (embraced within Tompkins County) upon which it proposes to erect a county barn. The county barn would be used, among other things, as a base for a large quantity of road building and repair equipment, heavy trucks used daily, snowplows and machinery, for storage of road building and repair materials, and as the…