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The French-American School of New York has followed through on a promise to sue the city of White Plains, filing last week in New York State Supreme Court.
The 87-page lawsuit against the city and its mayor, Democrat Thomas M. Roach, filed by Michael D. Zarin and Daniel M. Richmond of the firm Zarin & Steinmetz on behalf of the school, comes about a month after the city's Common Council did not vote to approve closing part of a road leading to the school's property by the five-member supermajority needed to pass the measure at an Aug. 5 special meeting.
In its suit, the school asked the state Supreme Court to throw out the council's vote and approve the school's site plan and special permit application, which would allow the school to be built near the Gedney Farms neighborhood in a single-family residential zoning district and on the site of the former Ridgeway Country Club.
The school is also suing for court costs.
The city has not yet hired a law firm, but authorization to fund outside counsel was approved by the Common Council Sept. 8, according to Karen M. Pasquale, senior adviser to the mayor.
The road in question, Hathaway Lane, leads to the school's 130-acre property that the French-American School purchased in...