Friends of Shawangunks, Inc. v. Knowlton

OPINION OF THE COURT

Kane, J.

This case concerns an approximately 450-acre1 subdivision located on Lake Minnewaska, owned by Lake Minnewaska Mountain Houses, Inc. (Mountain Houses), in the Town of Rochester, Ulster County (see Matter of Friends of Shawangunks v Flacke, 92 AD2d 640). In 1977, Mountain Houses sold a conservation easement in 240 acres of its 450-acre subdivision (a golf course) to the Palisades Interstate Park Commission (Palisades). A covenant in the conservation easement prohibited the construction of more than one residential dwelling within the 240 acres subject thereto. On…