MATTER OF LOWER E. SIDE JOINT PLANNING COUNCIL v. New York City Bd. of Estimate

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The order of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs.

Before approving an urban renewal plan for the Seward Park Extension area of New York City, respondent amended the proposal by redesignating 100 out of a much larger number of units of family housing to housing for the elderly. This alteration, in a project containing 1,341 units, is not major and does not alter the essential nature of the project. Consequently, it was within respondent’s power to make the modification (see Margulis v Lindsay, 31 NY2d 167; Fisher v Becker, 32 AD2d 786, affd no…