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OPINION & ORDER   Plaintiffs Post Office Square LLC (“Post Office Square”) and Larry Weinstein (“Weinstein”) (together, “Plaintiffs”) commenced the instant action on or about November 1, 2018, alleging violations of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, as well as claims under the New York State Constitution against Defendants Village of Spring Valley (the “Village”), Village of Spring Valley Board of Trustees (the “Trustees”), and Alan Simon, Mayor of Spring Valley (“Mayor Simon”) (together, “Defendants”). (Complaint, ECF No. 6; Amended Complaint (“Am. Compl.”), ECF No. 26.) Presently before the Court is Defendants’ motion to dismiss the Complaint pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(1) and 12(b)(6). (See ECF No. 32.) For the following reasons, Defendants’ motion to dismiss is GRANTED. BACKGROUND I. Factual Allegations The following facts are derived from the Amended Complaint and are taken as true and constructed in the light most favorable to Plaintiff for the purposes of this motion. See Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662, 678 (2009); Nicosia v. Amazon.com, Inc., 834 F.3d 220, 230 (2d Cir. 2016). a. Initial Development of the Premises On or about November 13, 2009, the Village and Post Office Square entered into a development agreement (the “Development Agreement”) for the property located at 23 Church Street (Section 57.39, Block 1, Lot 13), Spring Valley, New York (the “Premises”). (Am. Compl.

18-19; Declaration of John Stepanovich (“Stepanovich Decl.”), ECF No. 34, Ex. D.) Post Office Square acquired title to the Premises from the Village on January 14, 2013, recorded February 5, 2013. (Id. at 20.) Post Office Square proceeded to develop the Premises. At some point in 2017, the Village brought a code enforcement case against Plaintiff Weinstein, individually, which halted the work on the Premises for almost one year. (Id. at 44.) Mayor Simon — who, at the time of the enforcement case, was a Village of Spring Valley Justice — presided over the code enforcement case against Weinstein, in which Weinstein was jailed twice. (Id. at 45.) b. 2017-18 Building Permit On December 13, 2017, the Village’s deputy building inspector issued Plaintiffs a building permit to “finish construction” of the building at issue (the “2017-18 Building Permit”); Post Office Square, LLC paid the Village approximately $5,900 for said building permit. (Id. at

 
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