Legal Opinion
Spears v. Berle
New York Court of Appeals
Decided October 18, 1979PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Chief Judge Cooke.
Petitioners own two parcels of land. One, known as the "Culver” property, contains 38 acres of freshwater wetland out of a total of approximately 51 acres. The second tract has an area of about 43 acres and an 8-acre wetland referred to as "Spears’ Bog”. Both properties were classified as wetlands, the first because of its size, the second because it was determined by the Commissioner of Environmental Conservation (the Commissioner) to be an area of unusual local importance (ECL 24-0301, subd 1).
In March of 1977 petitioners applied to the Commissioner for…
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