Mobil Oil Corp. v. City of Syracuse

Judgment unanimously affirmed, with costs. Memorandum: On June 4, 1973 the Common Council of the City of Syracuse, upon the recommendation of the city planning commission, granted petitioner a special use permit to construct a self-service gasoline filling station on the *732corner of Onondaga Boulevard and Velasko Road. In so doing it provided that construction must be completed within one year. Because of the national oil shortage at that time, petitioner was unable to obtain Federal fuel allocations for the proposed station and so on March 29, 1974 it applied to the planning commission for an…