Opinion
November 9, 1995
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Rensselaer County (Spain, J.).
We affirm Supreme Court's order holding that this CPLR article 78 proceeding, commenced December 30, 1993, was untimely. The time limitation for the filing thereof was triggered on August 12, 1992, the date when the minutes of respondents' Planning Board meeting of June 18, 1992 were filed in the office of the Clerk of the Town of Brunswick in Rensselaer County. It was at this meeting where the pivotal determination herein — conditioning site plan approval for a strip mall to be constructed by a third party upon the removal of petitioners' billboard — was made. Hence, this proceeding, commenced over a year and four months after the filing of respondents' decision, was untimely pursuant to Town Law former § 274-a (3) ( see, CPLR 217).
We reject petitioner's contention that Supreme Court erred by failing to hold respondents in contempt of court for violating a temporary restraining order directing that the billboard be left in place pending the outcome of this proceeding. Viewing the record as a whole, it cannot be said that Supreme Court acted injudiciously in declining to sanction respondents ( see, Educational Reading Aids Corp. v Young, 175 A.D.2d 152; Matter of Nestler v Nestler, 125 A.D.2d 836, 837).
Cardona, P.J., Mikoll, Casey and Peters, JJ., concur. Ordered that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.