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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New royalty community is disagreeable to kibosh an $800 meg utilization to be built on the place of a former General Motors Co plant, locution the automaker's send has not conventional comely environmental vetting from land officials.

The villages of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow have been conflict over the planned "Lighthouse Landing" utilization since at least 2007, according to a causa filed by the community of Tarrytown.

Sleepy Hollow wants to turn the place into a compounding of businesses and homes. The plan, which GM proposed, calls for 1,100 residential units and more than 170,000 square feet of advertizement utilization and a 140-room hotel.

Sleepy Hollow unsuccessful to fully consider the project's environmental impact as it was wrongfully required to do, leaving Tarrytown to shoulder the consequences, the causa contends.

The causa was filed in New royalty Supreme Court in Westchester County on Tuesday. It names Sleepy Hollow and GM as defendants.

GM declined to comment. Sleepy Hollow politician Ken Wray said the municipality expects to defeat the lawsuit, which he characterized as an attempt by Tarrytown to protect its set base at the expense of Sleepy Hollow's.

While the 94.5-acre place beside the naturalist River is settled in Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown officials feature that GM's offering could significantly hurt traffic, parking and pedestrian safety within its borders.

Sleepy Hollow authorised the send in 2007. Tarrytown sued to challenge the environmental review, which was stayed pending boost state from Sleepy Hollow.

In 2010, after GM emerged from bankruptcy, it submitted a revised offering that increased the advertizement utilization expanse and additional the hotel, according to the lawsuit.

Tarrytown claims that the revisions would make the reciprocation effects of the utilization even worse.

The causa seeks to preclude Sleepy Hollow and GM from taking boost state pending a newborn environmental analyse and to country some permits issued for the development.

The housing is Mayor and Board of Trustees of the Village of Tarrytown et al. v. Mayor and Board of Trustees of the Village of Sleepy Hollow and GM, in the Supreme Court for the State of New York, Westchester County, no. 11630/11.

(Reporting by Jessica Dye; Additional reporting by Ben Klayman. Editing by Tim Dobbyn and parliamentarian MacMillan)

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