MATTER OF SHOKRIAN v. ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS OF CITY OF LONG BEACH


32 A.D.3d 961 (2006)

820 N.Y.S.2d 811

In the Matter of EBRAHIM SHOKRIAN, Appellant, v. ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS OF CITY OF LONG BEACH, Respondent.

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

September 19, 2006.


Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

Local zoning boards are vested with broad discretion in considering applications for area variances, and judicial review of their determinations is limited to whether the action taken was illegal, arbitrary and capricious, or an abuse of discretion (see Matter of Ifrah v Utschig, 98 N.Y.2d 304, 308 [2002]; Matter of Doyle v Amster, 79 N.Y.2d 592

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