Rockland County
Ed Day, County Executive
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OFFICE OF THE COUNTY ATTORNEY
11 New Hempstead Road
New City, New York 10956
Phone: (845) 638-5180
Fax: (845) 638-5676
Thomas E. Humbach
County Attorney
October 23, 2024
VIA NYSCEF
Hon. Hal B. Greenwald
1 South Main Street
County of Rockland
11 New Hempstead Road
New City, New York 10956
Re:
Janice Young, et al. v. The Village of Piermont, et al.
Supreme Court Index No. 032252/2024
Rockland County Law Department File No. 2024-07051
Dear Judge Greenwald:
I write on behalf of the County of Rockland in response to Attorney Lyons’ letter filed October 10, 2024, the day before the Court’s Decision and Order of October 11, 2024 which held that Local Law 4 and its progeny the Central Business Multi-Use (CBM) District within the Village of Piermont are both null, void and jurisdictionally invalid based upon the Village of Piermont’s failure to effect the mandatory referral of said legislation to the Rockland County Planning Board as required by General Municipal Law 239-m.
While the Village submitted a new referral to County Planning, the same was premised on the adopted Local Law 4 of 2023 which this Court nullified, voided, and found to be jurisdictionally defective.
GML 239-m requires a municipality to refer the proposed local law to County Planning, which as of the date hereof the Village has failed to do.
Respectfully submitted,
Very truly yours,
Larraine S. Feiden
Principal Assistant County Attorney
Ed Day, County Executive
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OFFICE OF THE COUNTY ATTORNEY
11 New Hempstead Road
New City, New York 10956
Phone: (845) 638-5180
Fax: (845) 638-5676
Thomas E. Humbach
County Attorney
October 23, 2024
VIA NYSCEF
Hon. Hal B. Greenwald
1 South Main Street
County of Rockland
11 New Hempstead Road
New City, New York 10956
Re:
Janice Young, et al. v. The Village of Piermont, et al.
Supreme Court Index No. 032252/2024
Rockland County Law Department File No. 2024-07051
Dear Judge Greenwald:
I write on behalf of the County of Rockland in response to Attorney Lyons’ letter filed October 10, 2024, the day before the Court’s Decision and Order of October 11, 2024 which held that Local Law 4 and its progeny the Central Business Multi-Use (CBM) District within the Village of Piermont are both null, void and jurisdictionally invalid based upon the Village of Piermont’s failure to effect the mandatory referral of said legislation to the Rockland County Planning Board as required by General Municipal Law 239-m.
While the Village submitted a new referral to County Planning, the same was premised on the adopted Local Law 4 of 2023 which this Court nullified, voided, and found to be jurisdictionally defective.
GML 239-m requires a municipality to refer the proposed local law to County Planning, which as of the date hereof the Village has failed to do.
Respectfully submitted,
Very truly yours,
Larraine S. Feiden
Principal Assistant County Attorney
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