Neither anything in section 96-a of the General Municipal Law, nor article 5-K thereof, which are the legal sources for municipal historical preservation ordinances, authorizes a municipal corporation to impose restoration costs upon the owner of property in a designated historic district. Thus spoke the Court of Appeals in FGL & L Prop. Corp. v City of Rye (
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