2. Such property shall be submitted and subject to the authority of and review by the county planning agency as set forth in section two hundred thirty-nine-n of article twelve-B of the general municipal law, irrespective of and notwithstanding the distance requirement of the second unnumbered paragraph of such section, and as though the property were a subdivision plat subject to such section. This subdivision shall not be applicable to:

1. (i) property which has received local planning board approval prior to December twenty-first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight; or
2. (ii) property submitted to the provisions of this article on which any building or buildings or any portion thereof has been rented to any tenant or tenants.