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The following article ran in the July 19, 2001, issue of the Daily Messenger and is reprinted here with permission.

Drumlins issue soon to be decided

The Planning Board will decide by Sept. 25 whether the townhouse project can move forward.

By KRIS DREESSEN 
Messenger Post Staff

VICTOR - Residents who oppose the Drumlins complex and the project developer will argue their cases before Planning Board members next month.

Each side - the Pioneer Corporation and the Drumlins Concerned Citizens - will be able to present why Pioneer's plans to build 154 rental townhomes in the existing Drumlins subdivision off Rawson Road are either reasonably similar, or not similar, to what was originally intended for the land when the town rezoned it in the 1980s.

Residents say the rental homes aren't what planners had in mind for the land back in the 1980s.

The Planning Board has been ordered by Acting State Supreme Court Judge James Harvey to decide the contentious issue, which is at the heart of resident opposition to the Parkwood at the Drumlins project.

"We have to respond to the reasonably similar issue," said Planning Board Chairman Christie Hart. "And we can consider rent versus owned (units) as part of that."

Pioneer and the resident group will have about 20 minutes to present their cases at the meeting, 7 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 28, at Town Hall, 85 E. Main St.

Pioneer, the resident group and Victor's development director, code enforcement officer and Zoning Board of Appeals must submit written comments by Aug. 14. Rebuttals from both groups will be accepted until Sept. 4 for review, Hart said.

The board will make a decision by Sept. 25, Hart said.

Pioneer sued the Planning Board last winter after its members referred the matter to another, but unspecified Victor board.

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