Matter of Shapiro v. Planning Bd. of the Town of Ramapo

Matter of Shapiro v Planning Bd. of the Town of Ramapo (2017 NY Slip Op 07733)
Matter of Shapiro v Planning Bd. of the Town of Ramapo
2017 NY Slip Op 07733
Decided on November 8, 2017
Appellate Division, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
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Decided on November 8, 2017 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department
JOHN M. LEVENTHAL, J.P.
LEONARD B. AUSTIN
JEFFREY A. COHEN
COLLEEN D. DUFFY, JJ.

2012-10588
(Index No. 159/12)

[*1]In the Matter of Susan Hito Shapiro, as successor executor of the estate of Sonya Shapiro, et al., petitioners/plaintiffs-appellants,

v

Planning Board of the Town of Ramapo, et al., respondents/defendants-respondents, et al., respondents/defendants.




Susan H. Shapiro, named herein as Susan Hito Shapiro, Nanuet, NY, petitioner/plaintiff-appellant pro se, and for petitioner/plaintiff-appellant Benjamin Ostrer.

Michael L. Klein, Town Attorney, Suffern, NY (Janice Gittelman and Michael Specht of counsel), for respondents/defendants-respondents Planning Board of the Town of Ramapo, Town Board of the Town of Ramapo, and Town of Ramapo.

Terry A. Rice, Suffern, NY, for respondent/defendant-respondent Scenic Development, LLC.



DECISION & ORDER

In a hybrid proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to review three determinations of the Planning Board of the Town of Ramapo, all dated December 27, 2011, which granted the applications of the respondent Scenic Development, LLC, for subdivision and site plan approval of the subject property, and action for injunctive relief, the petitioners/plaintiffs appeal from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Rockland County (Walsh II, J.), dated September 10, 2012, as dismissed the first through third and fifth through eleventh causes of action.

ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed as academic, without costs or disbursements.

This appeal has been rendered academic by the determinations of the respondent Planning Board of the Town of Ramapo dated March 22, 2013, granting the applications of the respondent Scenic Development, LLC, for final subdivision and site plan approval of the subject property. Since the issues raised herein have been addressed on the appeal in Matter of Shapiro v Planning Board of Town of Ramapo ( ____AD3d____ [Appellate Division Docket No. 2014-07003; decided herewith]), the exception to the mootness doctrine does not apply (see City of New York v Maul, 14 NY3d 499, 507; Matter of Hearst Corp. v Clyne, 50 NY2d 707, 714; see also Matter of Veronica P. v Radcliff A., 24 NY3d 668, 671; Matter of Aloya v Planning Bd. of Town of Stony Point, 93 NY2d 334).

LEVENTHAL, J.P., AUSTIN, COHEN and DUFFY, JJ., concur.

ENTER:

Aprilanne Agostino

Clerk of the Court