MATTER OF CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HARLEM VALLEY ENVIRONMENT v. TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF AMENIA


264 A.D.2d 394 (1999)

694 N.Y.S.2d 108

In the Matter of CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HARLEM VALLEY ENVIRONMENT et al., Appellants, v. TOWN BOARD OF THE TOWN OF AMENIA et al., Respondents, and SAND AND STONE ASSOCIATES et al., Intervenors-Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided August 2, 1999.


Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, the petition is granted, and the determination of the Town Board is annulled.

It is well-settled that "SEQRA's goal [is] to incorporate environmental considerations into the decision making process at the earliest possible opportunity" (Matter of Neville v Koch, 79 N.Y.2d 416, 426; see also, ECL 8-0109 [4]). Indeed, one of the purposes...

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