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 Newsday A developer locked in a decades-long court battle with the Town of Oyster Bay over the construction of an upscale mall in Syosset is lauding a recent court decision ordering the town to issue a special-use permit for the project. Taubman Centers Inc., a Michigan-based developer, has been in a lengthy court battle with the town about its plans to build an 860,000-square-foot mall that would include Barneys New York, Neiman Marcus and Nordstrom as anchor stores. "The Court has now definitively ruled that there is no legal basis for the Town to further delay the mall," Steve Kieras, Taubman's senior vice president of development, said in a statement. "We're very pleased with the judge's ruling and are prepared to begin construction on The Mall at Oyster Bay pending the Town complying with the Court's decision." Jim Moriarty, a town spokesman, declined to comment, saying the town was reviewing the decision. Taubman bought the 39-acre property, the site of the former Cerro Wire and Cable Co., from Tribune Co., Newsday's parent, in 2004. In response to a court order in September, the town laid out the reasons for denying Taubman a permit to build the mall in Syosset. In court documents, town officials said that if they were to consider issuing Taubman a special use permit Taubman must: submit a letter stating its desire to construct a smaller, 750,000-square-foot mall along with the site plans and submit a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement that would address the traffic impact on the surrounding roads; the safety of pedestrians attending the Robbins Lane School and Syosset Public Library; the impact on real estate values; and the feasibility of changing a Long Island Rail Road grade crossing. 
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