Malrite T.V. of New York, Inc. v. Licciardi

Respondent landowners, having knowingly acquired the land for a use prohibited by the zoning ordinance, could not thereafter have a variance on the ground of special hardship (see, Matter of Clark v Board of Zoning Appeals, 301 NY 86, cert denied 340 US 933; Matter of Romanelli v Bonvouloir, 102 AD2d 872; Repicci v Sharpe, 96 AD2d 727, lv denied 60 NY2d 556; Ames v Palma, 52 AD2d 1077; Matter of Kenyon v Quinones, 43 AD2d 125, 127; Matter of Everhart v Johnston, 30 AD2d 608; 2 Anderson, New York Zoning Law and Practice § 23.30 [3d ed]). Moreover, the landowners failed to submit sufficient…