{"id":205779,"date":"2026-04-22T07:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205779\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:19:15","slug":"proceed-with-caution-developing-near-wetlands-in-the-wake-of-chautauqua-lake-property-owners-association-et-al-v-new-york-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205779\/","title":{"rendered":"Proceed with Caution: Developing Near Wetlands in the Wake of &#8216;Chautauqua Lake Property Owners Association et al. v. New York State&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/expert-opinion\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Expert Opinion<\/a>Environmental Law<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 text-sm text-neutral-80\">In 2022, New York expanded its wetlands law, but recent court rulings have annulled DEC\u2019s regulations, leaving landowners without guidance and shifting the burden to prove wetlands are regulated. The law broadens jurisdiction, eliminates mapping requirements, and increases enforcement, so landowners should assume permits are now needed for wetlands meeting the new criteria.<\/p>\n<p>7 minute readApril 21, 2026 at 05:10 PM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Expert OpinionEnvironmental Law In 2022, New York expanded its wetlands law, but recent court rulings have annulled DEC\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-205779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news","11":"tag-new-york-state","12":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}