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LETTERS
TO THE EDITOR
Developers rule village of VictorTo the editor: I first want to thank the Daily Messenger for the excellent coverage that I find in your newspaper on our town of Victor. I am writing in response to your article entitled "Victor settles Drumlins lawsuit." It seems to me the village of Victor government has, once again, bowed to the heavy hand of a developer. The mere threat of a lawsuit placed the village into the position of doing what the developer wants. Clearly the developer is controlling the village. What are we to surmise? The village is receiving a $1,500 per unit hook up fee... OK. But what is "$10,000 to settle outstanding issues about the work Turner previously had done to correct village sewer problems...." about? The village is under a state consent order to fix this sewer problem by November. The sewers are polluting our environment. $10,000 will do very little to solve that problem. The last estimate I heard to fix the sewers was around $450,000! So I ask again, what are we to surmise? Clearly, adding 154 more sewer hook-ups will not help the pollution problem, it doesn't take an engineer to figure that one out. Yet the state seems to think "the additional waste water from Pioneer's development would not increase problems..." Is it me, or is anyone else having a hard time grasping this concept? Unfortunately, there are those in the village government who believe that the sole opposition to the project should lie within the government of the town of Victor. These people are wrong. These people seemed to have forgotten that here in Victor, are all Victorites, together. We work and play as citizens of Victor and do not discriminate based on property lines. There are plenty of village residents who oppose this apartment project as evidenced by their involvement in the Drumlins Concerned Citizens (DCC). Even village residents who are not directly involved with the DCC have signed petitions opposing the project. The DCC has a website address at oaknut.com/drumlins. Hopefully, the town of Victor government will have the backbone to stand up for what is right. The townspeople have been polled and unmistakably feel that Victor is a place for green space. And if it is apartments that the politicians hear the people want, then apartments should be built in Victor. There are, after all, appropriate places to build apartments in Victor. In the middle of two single-family home neighborhoods is neither appropriate nor acceptable. We residents purchased our single-family homes and townhomes with the express representation that more of the same would be built on the adjacent land. This apartment project will most definitely change the character of the neighborhood. We sincerely hope that the correct decisions be made for the sake of our neighborhood and our town and our village. It would be sad if we are put into the position of paying more for costly legal services to protect our properties and the quality of our lives. Bruce Trojan |
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