Groarke v. Board of Education of Rockville Centre Union Free School District

63 A.D.3d 935, 880 N.Y.S.2d 535

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: June 16, 2009
• Status: Published

Opinion

In a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 to review a resolution of the Board of Education of the Rockville Centre Union Free School District, which approved a proposal to upgrade the athletic field at South Side High School in the Rockville Centre School District pending development and the approval of contracts, the petitioners appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Woodard, J.), entered February 26, 2008, which, inter alia, denied the petition and dismissed the proceeding.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, with costs.

Contrary to the petitioners’ contention, the Supreme Court properly determined that the proposal approved by the Board of Education of the Rockville Centre Union Free School District to upgrade the athletic field at South Side High School in the Rockville Centre School District by installing artificial turf, lighting, and bleachers, qualified as a type II action under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (ECL art 8; hereinafter SEQRA). Since the proposal clearly is for a “replacement, rehabilitation or reconstruction of a structure or facility, in kind, on the same site” (6 NYCRR 617.5 [c] [2]), it is a type II action, which does not require environmental review under SEQRA (see Matter of Committee to Stop Airport Expansion v Town Bd. of Town of E. Hampton, 2 AD3d 850 [2003]; Matter of Levine v Town of Clarkstown, 307 AD2d 997 [2003]; Matter of Crews v Village of Dobbs Ferry, 272 AD2d 540 [2000]).

The appellants’ remaining contention is without merit (see CPLR 5019 [a]). Santucci, J.P, Dickerson, Belen and Chambers, JJ., concur.