The lawsuit, filed by the Mamaroneck Coastal Environment Coalition, sought to revoke a special permit that allows the Mamaroneck, N.Y., club to host a limited number of events such as golf outings and bar mitzvahs.
Hampshire Country Club in Mamaroneck, N.Y., can continue to hold non-member events, a state supreme court judge ruled, as the club’s future as a residential development remains up in the air, the Lower Hudson Valley (N.Y.) Journal News reported.
Judge Linda S. Jamieson recently dismissed a lawsuit seeking to revoke a special permit from the village’s Zoning Board of Appeals that allows the club to host a limited number of events such as golf outings and bar mitzvahs, the Journal News reported.
The Mamaroneck Coastal Environment Coalition, which has clashed with club ownership over a plan to build condominiums at the golf course, filed the suit. The court ruled that the board took the concerns of residents into consideration and that its decision was “reasoned not abusive, and was based on the evidence before it—regardless of whether they drew the right or wrong conclusions from that evidence,” the Journal News reported
“We’re extremely happy that the judge substantiated the decision by the village of Mamaroneck Zoning Board of Appeals and it shows that they’re doing their job correctly,” Mayor Norman Rosenblum said.
Although the village sided with the club on this matter, it’s defending a separate lawsuit from the club, which had proposed building 121 condominium units on a 2-acre slice of its 116-acre project. The village rejected proposals to rezone the club grounds to allow the development and the club sued last year seeking $55 million in damages, the Journal News reported.
The club said that although it preferred the condo plan, which would spare the 18-golf course, it was would also consider a “Plan B” to subdivide the property and build 106 single-family homes where the course is currently located. Hampshire spokesman Thomas Nappi said there had been no decisions regarding what was next for the property’s development, the Journal News reported.
“We’re still sort of in the stage of evaluating what the next steps will be,” Nappi said.
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