Land Use

As a municipal attorney, I have seen my fair share of public hearings, where neighbors plead with a planning or zoning board to deny an application. Often, the neighbors bring up good points that help…

After the Brighton Zoning Board of Appeals (the “ZBA”) granted an area variance to construct an addition with less setback than required, neighbors successfully challenged the decision in an…

The regulations implementing the State Environmental Quality Review Act—commonly known as SEQRA—were recently amended by the Department of Environmental Conservation.  The newly revised…