Town of North Greenbush

RESIDENTS GET FRIEND IN ZONING DISPUTE:

Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has entered the town zoning fray now in the state's highest court.

Spitzer filed a friend of the court brief Monday with the state Court of Appeals, which will hear arguments on a town zoning dispute June 8.

The Defreestville Area Neighborhood Association opposes the rezoning of an area that includes the intersection of routes 4 and 43, saying commercial business will increase traffic on nearby roads to dangerous levels.

Last October the Appellate Division Third Department ruled DANA missed a crucial filing date when it appealed the Town Board's decision to rezone.

The group filed a lawsuit within four months of the enactment of the new zoning, but the Appellate Division ruled the action was supposed to be filed within four months of the town's issuing its State Environmental Quality Review Act findings.

Spitzer's brief said the midlevel court's ruling is wrong.

Why do I suspect that if Spitzer had come down on the other side of this the residents would be howling about how he shouldn't be sticking his nose where it doesn't belong?