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The following article ran in the April 26, 2000, issue of the Daily Messenger and is reprinted here with permission.

Victor: Drumlins not ready

The planning Board won't consider the project until the sewer issue is resolved.

By KRIS DREESSEN
Messenger Post Staff

VICTOR - The Victor Town Planning Board won't consider The Drumlins apartment project again until developers have secured sewer service for it.

The Pioneer Corp.'s application for approval to build 154 upscale apartments off of Rawson Road is incomplete because there is no agreement with the village to provide sewer service if it's built, board members said.

"It is incomplete for their failure to provide sewer," said Jeffrey Morris, the attorney for the Planning Board.

Planning Board members voted unanimously last night to deem the application incomplete. The town put the application on hold last month after the village said it couldn't provide sewer service.

Also last night, the Planning Board rescinded decisions it made in March to start a formal project review and request the Town Board decide whether Pioneer's proposal is similar to what was originally intended for the site. Board member Rosemary Graham was absent.

Pioneer will have to start the approval process over, when and if the sewer issue is resolved, said Planning Board Chairman Christie Hart.

About 75 residents turned out for yesterday's meeting, including many members of the Drumlins Concerned Citizens committee, a group of residents from the Drumlins subdivision and nearby areas that oppose the project.

Citizens committee members also submitted a petition signed by more than 220 residents requesting the Planning Board dismiss the project and rezone the land back to residential use. Leon Katzen, a Rochester attorney hired by the group, said privately owned residences, not rental apartments, were originally intended in The Drumlins.

Citizens committee member Marsha Senges said she feels residents are disappointed the project wasn't dismissed, but "incomplete is better than 'on hold.'"

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