Land Use & Sustainable Development Law Institute Bagels with the Boards - Breakfast/CLE

How New York Law Allows the Ticking Clock to Run the Zoning Process 

Friday, Feb. 24, 2017

8:30 - Breakfast & Registration

9 - 10 a.m. - Program

The land use entitlement process in New York can be a lengthy ordeal, for the applicant, municipality and interested members of the public. Regardless of the degree of difficulty or complexity of an application, the municipal zoning approval process often takes what feels to all involved to be an inordinately long time. Although ingrained processes within municipal building and planning departments can inadvertently delay applications, program faculty Gregory R. Alvarez notes that state law is actually at the core of this problem. 

Program faculty Gregory R. Alvarez will begin the presentation by outlining some of the common ways in which time gets in the way of land use applications, and how courts have resolved these issues. The presentation will then review the current statutory framework in place regarding timeframes, and gaps in the statutory framework, which create many of the problems discussed in the case law. The presentation will conclude with a brief discussion of one potential way to close these loopholes, and create a more reliable, consistent review process from which all parties to the land use process can benefit.

 

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