A zoning law that targeted a landscaper’s small business in order to boost a potential multimillion dollar development project is unconstitutional, a state Supreme Court justice has ruled.
Justice Gerald Loehr, sitting in Rockland County, granted summary judgment last month, affirming his 2013 ruling that had portrayed the developer, Chestnut Ridge Associates, and the village of Chestnut Ridge in Ramapo as conspiring to knock aside Steve’s Lawns by carving out a zoning rule exception that would have affected only that landscaping business.
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