Fair housing lawsuit against Half Moon Bay HOA, management, and a HMB resident heads towards a settlement.

A case that began several years ago around rules about dog ownership at the complex ended up in federal court and brought in the Westchester County Fair Housing Board.

Editor’s note: As many or most Crotonites will know by now, there is other important news related to the Half Moon Bay area emerging today. We will have a commentary on that story coming soon.

A long-running dispute over alleged retaliation against a family that formerly lived in the Half Moon Bay Condominium’s Discovery Cove appears to be reaching settlement in federal court.

In November of last year, the Westchester County Fair Housing Board (WCFHB) sued the Half Moon Bay Homeowner’s Association (HOA), its Board of Managers, the Discovery Cove Board of Managers, Heritage Management Services, and HMB resident Stanley Esposito, over claims by former residents Deborah and Peter Tomasi that a confidentiality agreement in an earlier settlement had been violated by the defendants.

When the WCFHB filed the action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), it received little public attention, other than a short report in the Westfair Business Journal. We are told by residents at HMB that the condominium’s board kept the case quiet, and indeed it appears that few of them knew about it.