This Criminal Court has long recognized the considerable authority of municipalities to implement zoning plans and programs to meet the increasing encroachments of urbanization on the quality of their residents' lives as held in similar cases of Asian Ams. for Equality v Koch and Matter of Harbison v City of Buffalo. [read post]

Factors to be considered in determining reasonableness include "the nature of the business of the property owner, the improvements erected on the land, the character of the neighborhood, and the detriment caused the property owner" (Matter of Harbison v City of Buffalo, 4 NY2d 553, 562-563). [read post]