Legal Opinion
Rivervale Realty v. Town of Orangetown, NY
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided March 29, 1993No. 89 Civ. 2306 (VLB)PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM ORDER
VINCENT L. BRODERICK, District Judge.
I
This case involves claims by a real estate development company challenging, on various bases, the constitutionality of a local zoning ordinance. Plaintiff has invoked 42 U.S.C. § 1983.
In summary, a local law applicable to property owned by plaintiff Rivervale Realty Co., Inc. (“Rivervale”) and other property owners substituted requirements of two-acre zoning rather than one-acre zoning for each dwelling; pre-existing structures were excluded. Rivervale challenged in state court the environmental study on which this amendment was based; the…
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