Case Name: In the Matter of HLP Properties, LLC, et al., Respondents, v. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2010-02-11
Citations: 70 A.D.3d 469
Docket Number: 
Parties: In the Matter of HLP Properties, LLC, et al., Respondents, v New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 70
Pages: 469–469

Head Matter:
In the Matter of HLP Properties, LLC, et al., Respondents, v New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Appellant.
[898 NYS2d 449]

Opinion:
—Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Walter B. Tolub, J.), entered September 24, 2008, annulling respondent agency's denial of petitioners' application for admission into the Brownfield Cleanup Program, and directing acceptance of petitioners' property into the program, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Recent precedent of this Court compels the conclusion that respondent improperly departed from statutory criteria in finding that the subject property is not a brownfield site (Matter of East Riv. Realty Co., LLC v New York State Dept. of Envtl. Conservation, 68 AD3d 564 [2009], citing, inter alia, Justice Tolub's opinion herein, 21 Misc 3d 658, 669 [2008]). A remand for a new determination is unnecessary (see id. at 564). Concur— Mazzarelli, J.P., Acosta, Renwick and Freedman, JJ.