SAVE PINE BUSH v. ALBANY


70 N.Y.2d 193 (1987)

In the Matter of Save the Pine Bush, Inc., et al., Appellants-Respondents, v. City of Albany et al., Respondents-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 11, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vincent J. McArdle, Jr., Corporation Counsel (Gary F. Stiglmeier of counsel), for City of Albany, respondent-appellant.

Peter A. Lynch for Willard T. Anderson, respondent-appellant.

Lewis B. Oliver, Jr., and Harriet B. Oliver for appellants-respondents.

Gary H. Gutchess for The New York State Builders Association, Inc., amicus curiae.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges KAYE, ALEXANDER, HANCOCK, JR., and BELLACOSA concur; Judge SIMONS taking no part.


TITONE, J.

The clash between the goals of environmental preservation and commercial development of the Pine Bush area of the City of Albany has given rise to this dispute. Plaintiffs-petitioners allege that violations of the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) should render the City's enactment of three ordinances which open the Pine Bush to commercial development invalid and that the first of the...

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