Case Name: In the Matter of the City of New York, Appellant, Relative to Acquiring Title to Real Property for a Project Known as College Point Industrial Park, Urban Renewal Project II. Peter Reiss et al., Respondents
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1982-02-09
Citations: 55 N.Y.2d 885
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of the City of New York, Appellant, Relative to Acquiring Title to Real Property for a Project Known as College Point Industrial Park, Urban Renewal Project II. Peter Reiss et al., Respondents.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 55
Pages: 885–887

Head Matter:
In the Matter of the City of New York, Appellant, Relative to Acquiring Title to Real Property for a Project Known as College Point Industrial Park, Urban Renewal Project II. Peter Reiss et al., Respondents.
Argued January 11, 1982;
decided February 9, 1982
APPEARANCES OF COUNSEL
Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr., Corporation Counsel (Peter A. Mound and Morris Einhorn of counsel), for appellant.
Michael J. Greco and Ignatius John Melito for William A. Gull, respondent.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT
Memorandum.
The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, with costs, and the matter remitted to that court for a review of the facts. The Appellate Division increased the plottage increment from 5% to 10% as a matter of law. This was error.
In determining an award to an owner of condemned property, the findings must either be within the range of the expert testimony or be supported by other evidence and adequately explained by the court (Matter of City of New York [A. & W. Realty Corp.], 1 NY2d 428, 432-433; Milsap v State of New York, 32 AD2d 586).
Chief Judge Cooke and Judges Gabrielli, Jones, Wachtler, Fuchsberg and Meyer concur; Judge Jasen taking no part.
Order reversed, with costs, and matter remitted to the Appellate Division, Second Department, for further proceedings in accordance with the memorandum herein.