The property is zoned correctly
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Traffic will not increase significantly enough to adversely impact an already overburdened state road (Genesee) or an already overburdened county road (Pleasant View Drive). If the Planning Board uses this as a potential significant adverse impact not only will the developer be screaming, so too will many of us who likewise live on or along overburdened roads – and where development keeps taking place and where the town declares itself unable to control traffic because the main roads are predominantly county or state roads.
The only thing holding this project up is meeting environmental and SWPPP requirements.
The current town administration is paying for the sins of the fathers. Developers have indeed ruled in this town (and other towns as well) for past decades:
• Getting necessary permits from the town, DEC and ACOE
• With bogus wetland delineations (destroying or filling in wetlands indiscriminately and resulting in much of today’s flooding and drainage issues
• Building inferior subdivision roads – which resulted in need of early reconstruct or repair
• Getting town approvals to surrender ponds that the town now maintains at our expense
• Getting rezones and rezones of rezones approved based on developer market needs
• Dumb growth practices – not accommodating for the infrastructure or roads as the town built out
• Weak code enforcement
• Patronage
The town is finishing up a new comprehensive plan with the focus on code changes and/or updating. Much needed.