Conservatives sue to overturn City of Yes zoning rewrite

Chair of Herrick's Land Use and Zoning practice, Mitch Korbey, was quoted in Crain's New York Business discussing how a group of conservative lawmakers and neighborhood groups filed suit to try to overturn New York’s landmark City of Yes zoning reforms, arguing that Mayor Eric Adams’ administration failed to do full environmental reviews and improperly broke the policies into three parts.

Mitch said he is "confident the city will prevail." After he dismissed the plaintiffs’ claim that City of Yes was actually a single plan improperly "segmented" into three parts to avoid a more comprehensive study — instead, he said, the "City of Yes" branding was only a political label that the Adams administration used to communicate the plans to the public.

"These are distinct initiatives, each with their own environmental review," he said. "The city did take a thorough, exhaustive and complete analysis. They’ve done it in the way they do for these types of citywide initiatives."

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