Land Use—Environmental—Opposition to Annexation Allegedly Based on Anti-Semitism—Respondents Accused of Seeking Religious Segregation—SEQRA—Standing—Supplemental EIS Not Required—Establishment Clause and Taxpayer Claims Dismissed
The “main issue in this case,…is whether [a] village Board and Town Board…took the requisite hard look and provided reasoned elaborations for why they found that there would be no significant adverse environmental effects associated with [a] 164 acre annexation petition [164 acre petition].” The New York State Constitution provides that “[n]o local government or any part of the territory thereof shall be annexed to another until the people, if any, of the territory proposed to be annexed shall have consented thereto by majority vote on a referendum and until the governing board of each local government, the area of which is affected, shall have consented thereto upon the basis of a determination that the annexation is in the over-all public interest….”
