IN RE: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (2011)

Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department, New York.

IN RE: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, PETITIONER/ PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT -RESPONDENT, v. TOWN OF AMHERST, SATISH MOHAN, INDIVIDUALLY AND IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS SUPERVISOR OF TOWN OF AMHERST, TOWN BOARD OF TOWN OF AMHERST, ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS OF TOWN OF AMHERST, GMH COMMUNITIES, LP, COLLEGE PARK INVESTMENTS, LLC, DAVID LADE, NANCY LADE, WILLIAM S. SCHLEGEL, JOSE OLIVERA, MICHELE OLIVERA, LESTER C. BUSDIECKER, MATTHEW MAROTTA, PAMELA MAROTTA, MARK R. KELLAM, PAUL CUMMINS, PAMELA CUMMINS, ETTORE INFANTI, MARTIN KEITZ, KIMBERLY MAST, JEFFREY BROOKS, BARBARA BROOKS, DANIEL P. HULL, THOMAS KETCHUM, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS DIRECTOR OF TOWN OF AMHERST BUILDING DEPARTMENT, RESPONDENTS/ DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS, AND EUGENE TENNEY, RESPONDENT/ DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT - APPELLANT. (APPEAL NO. 1.)

CA 10-01004

Decided: February 18, 2011

PRESENT:  MARTOCHE, J.P., FAHEY, CARNI, LINDLEY, AND SCONIERS, JJ.

HODGSON RUSS LLP, BUFFALO (BENJAMIN M. ZUFFRANIERI, JR., OF COUNSEL), FOR PETITIONER/PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT-RESPONDENT. E. THOMAS JONES, TOWN ATTORNEY, WILLIAMSVILLE (ALAN P. MCCRACKEN OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENTS/DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS TOWN OF AMHERST, SATISH MOHAN, INDIVIDUALLY AND IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS SUPERVISOR OF TOWN OF AMHERST, TOWN BOARD OF TOWN OF AMHERST, ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS OF TOWN OF AMHERST AND THOMAS KETCHUM, IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS DIRECTOR OF TOWN OF AMHERST BUILDING DEPARTMENT. LAW OFFICES OF EUGENE C. TENNEY, BUFFALO (EUGENE C. TENNEY OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENT/DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT-APPELLANT. HOPKINS & SORGI, PLLC, WILLIAMSVILLE (SEAN W. HOPKINS OF COUNSEL), FOR RESPONDENTS/DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS GMH COMMUNITIES, LP, COLLEGE PARK INVESTMENTS, LLC, DAVID LADE, NANCY LADE, WILLIAM S. SCHLEGEL, JOSE OLIVERA, MICHELE OLIVERA, LESTER C. BUSDIECKER, MATTHEW MAROTTA, PAMELA MAROTTA, MARK R. KELLAM, PAUL CUMMINS, PAMELA CUMMINS, ETTORE INFANTI, MARTIN KEITZ, KIMBERLY MAST, JEFFREY BROOKS, BARBARA BROOKS AND DANIEL P. HULL.