| Matter of Owens Rd. Assoc., LLC v Town Bd. of Town ofGoshen |
| 2008 NY Slip Op 03462 [50 AD3d 908] |
| April 15, 2008 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| In the Matter of Owens Road Associates, LLC, et al.,Appellants, v Town Board of Town of Goshen et al.,Respondents. |
—[*1] Jacobowitz and Gubits, LLP, Walden, N.Y. (John C. Cappello of counsel), forrespondents.
In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to review two resolutions of the respondentTown Board of the Town of Goshen, both dated June 10, 2004, which adopted a"Comprehensive Plan" for future development in the Town of Goshen and amended the Town ofGoshen Zoning Law, respectively, the petitioners appeal from an order and judgment (one paper)of the Supreme Court, Orange County (Horowitz, J.), dated August 26, 2005, which, in effect,granted the respondents' motion to dismiss the petition pursuant to CPLR 3211 (a) (1) and (7),and 7804 (f), and dismissed the proceeding.
Ordered that the order and judgment is affirmed, with costs.
The documentary evidence submitted by the respondents "utterly refute[d]" (Goshen vMutual Life Ins. Co. of N.Y., 98 NY2d 314, 326 [2002]; see McMorrow v Dime Sav. Bank of Williamsburgh, 48 AD3d 646[2008]) several of the petitioners' allegations regarding purported deficiencies in the proceduresthe respondents followed prior to making the challenged determinations, conclusivelyestablishing the defenses to those allegations as a matter of law (see McMorrow v Dime Sav. Bank ofWilliamsburgh, 48 AD3d 646 [2008], citing, inter alia, Goshen v Mutual Life Ins.Co. of N.Y., 98 NY2d 314, 326 [2002]; Leon v Martinez, 84 NY2d 83, 87-88[1994]).[*2]
The petitioners' remaining contentions are without merit.Fisher, J.P., Miller, Carni and Dickerson, JJ., concur.