Legal Question in Real Estate Law in New York
Residential homeowner rights against visible commercial building heights
I live in a residential neighborhood within a small city in
Westchester County, NY, where we have residential zoning codes.
Downtown (one mile away) there are commercial zoning codes.
The City Council is starting to approve downtown building heights
that poke above our suburban tree line. An unforeseen
commercial urban skyline is beginning to violate our pre-existing
suburban residential views. If I bought my home based on the
bucollic treed views around it, and suddenly skyscrapers are being
approved to shoot up behind the trees, do I have any legal right to
challenge the City Council granting higher and higher building
rights to developers? (Used to be a 35-story cap which kept
building heights below the tree line. Now they've amended that
zoning code to allow for taller structures.) What are a residential
homeowner's rights?
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Residential homeowner rights against visible commercial building heights
The remedy is political, not legal. Organize your naeighbors to turn the city council out of office before these nutcases destroy your and your neighbors' property values.
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