DECISION ORDER
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The petitioners, residential property owners in the respondent Village of Belle Terre, made two requests under the Freedom of Information Law (Public Officers Law § 84 et seq.) for "[a]ll notes, records, correspondence, meeting minutes and other documents related to the adoption and/or revision of the Village Zoning Code's prohibition of commercial activity (presently Code § 170-5)". After the Village denied the request as overbroad, the petitioners commenced the instant proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 challenging that determination. The Supreme Court properly denied the petition and dismissed the proceeding.
Public Officers Law § 89(3) places the burden on the petitioners to "reasonably describe" the documents requested so that a search can be made by the agency (see, Matter of Konigsberg v. Coughlin, 68 N.Y.2d 245). The Village demonstrated that, in order to fully comply with the petitioners' requests, the one full-time employee of the Village Clerk's office would have to manually search through every document filed with the Village going back over 45 years (see, Matter of Gannett Co. v. James, 86 A.D.2d 744; cf., Matter of Konigsberg v. Coughlin, supra).
The petitioners' remaining contentions are unpreserved for appellate review or without merit.