Legal Opinion
Eadie v. Town Board
New York Court of Appeals
Decided July 5, 2006PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
R.S. Smith, J.
The Town of North Greenbush has rezoned a large area of land to permit retail development. Petitioners seek to annul the rezoning. The case raises these three issues:
1. Did the rezoning require a three-fourths majority vote of the Town Board under Town Law § 265 (1)? We hold that it did not, because the petition that sought to require a supermajority vote was not signed, as section 265 (1) requires, by the owners of 20% of the land within 100 feet of the land included in the rezoning. The 100 feet must be measured from the boundary of the rezoned area, not…
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