The following article ran in the January 9, 2001 issue of the Democrat and
Chronicle and is reprinted here with permission.
Victor seeks input on
McDonald's
Developer wants to build adjacent to one of town's
cobblestone houses.
BY STAFF WRITER
LIZ FORAN
VICTOR
- A proposal to build a McDonald's near the
site of a Victor landmark will come before the town Planning Board tonight;
public opinion on the project's potential impact will be accepted.
The board will use information gathered
at the meeting to create a list of concerns, including
traffic, lighting and drainage, that the developer must address in a report to
the board known as the environmental impact statement, said Planning Board
Chairman Christie Hart.
The site McDonald's Corp. has chosen at High Street and Route
96 is also the site of one of Victor's 13 cobblestone houses. The 159-year-old
house, owned by go-year-old Zoe Smith, served as a Victor schoolhouse until the
1940s and was once a part of the Seneca Trail.
The company would keep the house, building the restaurant next
to it on the approximately 2-acre site.
A formal proposal from Cortland-based Pioneer Development also
was on the board's agenda, but it was removed at the developer's request late
yesterday.
Pioneer, for the second time in two years, is proposing a
154-unit upscale apartment complex off Rawson Road in the Drumlins neighborhood,
a collection of single-family homes and privately owned
townhouses.
The current complex proposal is similar to the one presented
last year. Pioneer wants to put 154
apartment units in 20 buildings, each with its own garage
parking.
Designs show plans for trees, shrubs and
annual flowers and a half-moon flower bed in front of a pool and clubhouse at
the Rawson Road entrance.
The review process for the proposed Parkwood at the Drumlins
complex has already been reviewed and found incomplete after the village of
Victor said it could not provide sewer service to the area. The developers and
landowner Jack Turner sued, saying the village had agreed several years before
to service the area. Village officials settled the suit in
November, agreeing to provide service to up to 154 new units in the
neighborhood.
That proposal will be on the agenda for the Jan. 27 meeting,
said town Director of Development Jane Luce.
The Planning Board meeting begins at 7 P.m., with the
McDonald's request scheduled for 7:30 p.m., at Victor Town Hall, 85 E. Main St.
