Long Island Lighting Co. v. Voehl

The proof establishes, and the board has found, that a substation of the nature proposed is needed to enable the petitioner to provide adequate electric service to its customers. The zone in which the site of the proposed substation is located is the least restricted district in the village. In said zone, there are permitted, as a matter of right, such uses (among others) as hand laundries, dry-cleaning establishments, shirt laundries, carpenter shops, cabinet making shops, furniture and upholstery shops, metal working establishments, machine shops, blacksmith shops, tinsmith shops, leather…