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Apartment complex faces resistance in VictorBY STAFF WRITER VICTOR - A proposal to build a controversial 154-unit apartment complex could be ruled incomplete and sent back to the developer within two weeks, Victor Town Supervisor Jack Richter said yesterday. "We are anticipating during the Planning Board meeting the application will be found incomplete," Richter said. The development application from Pioneer Development, based in Cortland, was put on hold last month at the developer's request after the village of Victor said its sewer system could not handle flow from such a large complex. Developers proposed the apartments in the area known as the Drumlins last year, making an initial presentation to the Planning Board in December for luxury apartments, with rent ranging from $800 to $1,300 a month. In a letter to Pioneer attorney Jerry Goldman last month, Victor Mayor Thomas Walker said the village sewer system was already operating under a consent order to occasionally exceed discharge limits from the state Department of Environmental Conservation and needs to be upgraded. "In any event, at the present time the Village of Victor is unable to commit to accepting wastewater from such a project," he said. Richter said the town has been researching legal alternatives to leaving the Drumlins development proposal on hold indefinitely. When a development was first proposed in the Drumlins area in 1986, land owner Jack Turner requested rezoning for most of the land, leaving about a quarter of it for single family homes. The rest of the land, a quarter of which is in the village, was to have townhouses. Today, the part in the village has more than 50 townhouses, mostly in duplexes. Two other sections have single family homes. The land where the latest development is proposed was zoned for multiple dwellings in 1986 with the understanding that townhouses would eventually be built on the land, Richter said. That's been the cry of neighbors on all sides of the proposed complex, who have said that apartments were never intended for the hilly, wooded tract of land. A group of residents in and around the Drumlins have put pressure on the town to deny the application, which they say is not at all similar to what was originally proposed for the land. "Nobody ever expected this to stay not developed," area resident Marsha Senges said. She and her husband built their home on a wooded lot in the Drumlins 11 years ago. "We never would have built here knowing that this would be developed with apartments," she said. If the town Planning Board does rule the application incomplete, that will mean the board will take no more action on it until the developer can obtain sewer capacity for the complex.
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