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Ongoing Farmington Projects

Memorandum                                            

TO:            Farmington Town Board

FROM:      Ron Brand, Director of Planning & Development  -  Ronald L. Brand

                  Daniel Delpriore, Code Enforcement Officer – Daniel Delpriore  

DATE:       March 12, 2024

RE:            Report for Town Board Meeting on Tuesday, February 27, 2024.

The following report is for this week’s Town Board Meeting, and it is for the period February 27, 2024, through March 11, 2024.

Town Board Resolution (5)

  1. Resolution classifying, under the provisions of the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) the proposed Action entitled “Rezoning of land from PD Planned Development to IZ Incentive Zoning and MTOD Major Thoroughfare Overlay District for the Whitestone Incentive Zoning Project,” as an Unlisted Action.
  2. Resolution authorizing a $1.00 per hour wage increase to $24.00 per hour for the successful completion of the probationary period for Code Enforcement Officer Cadin Lloyd.
  3. Resolution authorizing a $.73 per hour wage increase to $20.00 per hour for the successful completion of the probationary period for Carol Marvel, Administrative Assistant in the Building Department.
  4. Resolution accepting a two year maintenance bond from SB Ashley Management Corporation for newly constructed site improvements within Phase 2A of the Hathaway’s Corners Incentive Zoning Project, in the total amount of $118,906.50.
  5. A resolution classifying, under the provisions of the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) the proposed Action entitled “Route 332/Collett Road/Mertensia Road Water Line Replacement Project,” to be a Type II Action.

     Town Projects Update

  1. FEDERAL HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES PROGRAM (TAP) GRANT AWARD.  All contract documents for awarding to the lowest responsible bidder have been provided to the Region 4 Office of the New York State Department of Transportation and forwarded onto the Albany Office for their review and acceptance.  It is anticipated that the Town Board will be making a formal award at their meeting on Tuesday, March 26, 2024.  The Bid Document calls for substantial completion of this capital improvement project by September 30, 2024, and close out by October 31, 2024.

  1. Town Line Road Capital Improvement Project.  The last phase of this project, installing a section of sidewalk along the north side of Town Line Road, located west of Stony Way and between Maplewood Drive, is scheduled to be completed this spring after allowing settling of the fill material over the winter months.

    

  1. Brickyard Road Water Tank & Transmission.  All contracts documents have been executed for all construction contracts and Notice to Proceeds were issued to the contractors on February 28, 2024.  A Pre-construction meeting was held on February 13, 2024.  Construction work on this project is anticipated to begin on the piping work in March and the tank construction is scheduled to start in April and be completed within 16 to 18 months.  Contractors have been working on submitting shop drawings for materials and starting to stake out construction.

  1. Monarch Manor Incentive Zoning Project, Section 2.

There are four (4) two-dwelling unit buildings completed and seven (7) are occupied in Section 2.  In addition, there are two (2) two-dwelling unit buildings under construction.  A total of 188 trees have been planted along the berms on the north side of the Canandaigua/Farmington Town Line and along the east side of New Michigan Road.  Additional landscape work will continue within Sections 1 and 2, this spring.  Eventually within Section 2 there will be twenty-four (24) buildings having a total of forty-eight (48) single-family dwelling units. 

  1. Auburn Meadows Subdivision, Section 8S.

This last building lot located within the last section of the Auburn Meadows Subdivision Project has been sold and the basement has been dug on the last of 31 lots located along both sides of Ackerman Way, between the Marion Way and Jasper Drive intersections. 

 

  1. Auburn Meadows Subdivision, Sections 7N and 8N.  All single-family dwelling lots within Sections 7N and 8N have been developed.  Repairs to the road base for Ivory Drive have now taken place and the topcoat of asphalt installed.  A final release of funds from the Letter of Credit is the next step involved with closing out this project.

  1. Redfield Grove Incentive Zoning, Section 3, Commercial Project. The Town Planning Board, at their meeting on Wednesday, January 17, 2024, granted preliminary re-subdivision plan approval with conditions for five proposed lots located within Section 3 of the Overall Site Plan for this incentive zoning project. Section 3 involves amendments that will reduce the number of separate commercial buildings and sites located along the east side of Commercial Drive from five to four. These changes will provide additional inter-connecting access points, additional on-site parking within the front portions for each of the remaining four lots, no on-site parking in the rear portions of these sites, a reduction in the number of curb cuts to Commercial Drive and a small vest pocket park, to be maintained by the owner and located at the north end of this Phase 3.  Finally, the re-use of the existing single-family dwelling located on a fifth parcel along the north side of State Route 96, east of Commercial Drive, will be re-subdivided from Lot #1 and used as a small office building with off-street parking.  B

 

  1. Hathaway’s Corners Incentive Zoning Project. All one-hundred fifty-one (151) townhouse dwelling units located within Phase 1A of the Hathaway’s Corners Incentive Zoning Project are now complete and occupied.  

Within Phase 2B of the Project located within the southeastern portion of the Hathaway’s Corners Incentive Zoning Project will be a total of eleven (11) apartment buildings having a total of 88 apartment units.  Ten (10) of these buildings are under construction with the last foundation poured.  A section of Carmen’s Way has been installed and dedicated allowing for the construction of the first ten (10) apartment buildings having a total of 80 apartment units.      

Within Phase 1B of the project there are five (5) remaining lots for sale along the south side of County Road 41.  Within another portion of Phase 1B, is a new model home/sales office located along the north side of Eddy Gate Way which is now open.  Also, within this portion of Phase 1B and located along Eddy Gate Way and Osburn Lane, there are a total of forty-two (42) single-family lots.  Two (2) of the single-family dwelling units are occupied. Two (2) are under construction, with thirty-six (36) single-family lots remaining for sale. 

A new phase of the Hathaway’s Corners Project, Phase 2A, now has the infrastructure (e.g., water, road gutters, storm sewer and sanitary sewer lines) installed and the base coat of asphalt installed along the remaining portion of Osburn Lane and the entire length of Cooper Place, between Osburn Lane and Savalla Boulevard.   The Town Board has accepted dedication of these site improvements.  Still needing to be installed will be concrete sidewalks completing the pedestrian systems along Eddy Gate Way and the remainder of Osburn Lane.  There will be a total of thirty (30) single-family dwellings constructed along the last section of Osburn Lane and a total of twelve (12) single-family dwellings constructed along Cooper Place. This final residential phase [2A] of this incentive zoning project will have a total of forty-two (42) single-family dwellings. 

Site work also continues within the first portion of Phase 1C, The Villas at Hathaway’s Corners.  This phase will involve a total of sixty-one (61) single-family dwellings located on Villa-style lots fronting along Caleb Court.  Four (4) single-family dwellings are under construction. The model home is now open to the public and fifty-six (56) lots remain available. This portion of the project will operate under a home-owners association where all site amenities (e.g., lawn mowing, landscaping, snow plowing, etc.) are provided for those living within the Villas at Hathaway’s Corners. 

                                        

  1. RG&E Substation 127 Expansion Project. The expansion project is located along the east side of Hook Road [961] and south of Inter-State Route I-90 [New York State Thruway]. This project includes the addition of impervious area (adding a 186 ft. by 100 ft. expansion to the existing 127 substation yard) and expansion of an existing bioretention facility to provide water quality treatment for this new area.  Finally, closeout action has commenced for this substation project, including the filing of a two-year Performance Bond with the Town Clerk’s Office and the final release of funds from the Letter of Credit for this project.

  1. RG&E Substation 168 Expansion Project.  Substation 168 is located along the south side of State Street, adjacent to the Village of Manchester.  Interior work in the control house continues including gas-insulated switchgear installation.  Exterior site work, inside the 115kV yard on the east side of the station continues, including installation of steel structures, cable trenches, etc., and weekly SWPPP inspections are on-going and have been provided to the Town.

  1. 1816 Quaker Meetinghouse Museum Project.  The Town has been assisting the 1816 Quaker Meetinghouse Museum Board of Directors (BODO in the preparation of applications for a Special Use Permit and Site Plan Approval for the restoration of the meetinghouse structure and related site development that will allow the opening of this facility that is now listed on the Federal and State Registers of Historic Sites.  A preliminary site plan drawing is being prepared by Bero Architects for submission to the Town Planning Board.  No date has been identified for when this part of the application process will be submitted.  The BOD has worked hard and for a long time seeking and obtaining federal and state grants to allow this part of our county’s history to be made available again to the public.

  1. LeFrois Project, (GLN) State Route 96.  The Town awaits receipt of requested information, including a draft easement document providing access across portions of the property, to move forward with approving the first partial release of funds from the established letter of credit for this project.  The Applicant is marketing the project, known as “Ontario Gateway Business Park.”    

  1. Auburn Junction Plaza Project (Phase 3A) and Amended Concept Plan.  The          URMC Thompson Health Care facility is now open.  No permit has been issued for the             interior work within the remaining 10,000 square foot space of the total 19,900 square                foot plaza building.  

Phase 3B (a future phase) will involve the design and construction of two standalone commercial type buildings with additional on-site parking to be located on the two outparcels located in front of the Phase 3A building.

    

  1. Loomis Road Industrial Park Project. The Town Board, at its November 14th meeting, approved a letter of credit for construction of Jetman Drive, the installation of site utilities [water, sewer and stormwater] and site improvements upon Lot #4 of this project.  Once a letter of credit has been filed with the Town Clerk’s Office, a pre-construction meeting will be scheduled, and site work will be authorized to commence.  The developer intends to start these site improvements in the spring. There is a total of eleven (11) lots to be developed within the industrial park site.

 

  1. CountryMax Building Project. The steel structures have now been installed, the lower portion of the building’s exterior wall is almost complete, and the building’s insulation panels and exterior panels are now being installed.    

A new sidewalk has been constructed across a portion of this project’s frontage along the south side of Collette Road ending at the west side of Hook Road.  This sidewalk connects to the extension of the sidewalk along the north side of Collett Road from the FedEx site to a new crosswalk that across Collett Road near the driveway to Ultra Fab.  This sidewalk has not yet been dedicated to the Town is not open to the public for their use at this time.

  1. Farmington Market Center Project. The Town Board, at their meeting on Tuesday, February 13th, approved with conditions the rezoning of three (3) parcels of land, involving 18.6 acres of land, for the development of this incentive zoning project.  After approving the rezoning request, the next step involves the submission of detailed Overall Preliminary Site Plan drawing, to the Town Planning Board, for the development of three (3) known projects which include a new branch office for Canandaigua National Bank, a Tops Fueling Station and Kiosk, and a Mavis Tire Center. 

Once the Overall Preliminary Site Plan is approved by the Planning Board and signed by all town officials, then the Town Clerk will direct the amendment to the Town’s Official Zoning Map for the involved sites.  Following the Official Zoning Map amendment, final site plan submissions will then be accepted by the Planning Board for their review and approval allowing for building permits to be issued and site improvements to occur later this year.     

  1. Electric Car Corner Project.  Site construction is complete for this project that involves the sales, leasing, repair, and maintenance of electric vehicles (including hybrid vehicles); and the operation of up to eight (8) level 3 electric vehicle charging stations for the public’s use.  These charging stations have been installed and the existing building is being renovated for use as the sales office and auto repair operations.  A formal grand opening is being scheduled for later this spring.

Also, a part of this project involves two (2) special use permits that have been granted by the planning board which allow for the sales and leasing of new and used vehicles, the repair and maintenance of new and used vehicles sold or leased from the dealership and the installation of electric vehicle charging stations for the public’s use. 

  1. Farmbrook Site Plan Applications, Sections 7A & 7B.  The Planning Board, at their meeting on Wednesday, March 6, 2024, granted Final Site Plan Approval with conditions for a total of seventy (70) single-family dwellings to be constructed upon lots located within Sections 7A and 7B of the Farmbrook Planned Subdivision Project.  No building permits may be issued for any additional dwelling units within these two sections until final site plan approvals have been completed, a letter of credit filed with the Town Clerk’s Office and a pre-construction meeting held.  Site development is anticipated to commence this spring.

  1. Western New York Commercial Warehouse Project.  Site construction continues upon this project which involves the development of land located along the south side of Loomis Road, between State Route 332 and Plastermill Road.  The project proposes two (2) ten thousand (10,000) square foot single-story warehouse buildings containing a total of 20 separate units and related site improvements.

  1. A Safe Place Storage, Phase 2.  A climate-controlled storage building, and the first of three (3) cold storage buildings are open to the public.  There is also an outdoor vehicle storage area located on this site.  The owner is now making site improvements for the construction of one (1) additional cold storage building which is anticipated to start later this spring. Once the topsoil screening and sales operation is complete then the developer will be issued a building permit for the construction of the one (1) remaining cold storage building that is to be located on this portion of the site. 

Finally, a part of this project involves the completion of the installation of three (3) streetlights on the site.

  1. Paddock Landing Project (formerly known as the Power Incentive Zoning Project). 

 

The Planning Board, at its meeting on Wednesday evening, February 21, 2024, granted Overall Preliminary Subdivision Plat and Preliminary Site Plan approvals for the Paddock Landing Incentive Zoning Project.   The next steps involve final revisions to the drawings, signing by Town Staff and filing with the Town Clerk’s Office who will then order the Town’s Official Zoning Map to be amended.  Then submission of final site plans for the first phase of site development. 

  1. Open Space Index Update.  The Town of Farmington Environmental Conservation Board (ECB) is nearing completion of the update to the Town’s Open Space Index.  The Update document is required by the State’s General Municipal Law, for maintaining the Board’s status.  GIS mapping updates have also been prepared as part of this process.  The draft document is scheduled for presentation to the Town Board, for its’ review and acceptance later this spring. 

  1. Parks & Recreation Plan Update – Residents Survey.  The Town Residents Survey is now closed.  A total of 474 surveys were submitted and tabulation of the results are underway.  Once the survey has been completed and tabulated, a report will be presented to the Town Recreation Advisory Board and then the Town Board.  A copy of the report will also be posted on the Town’s website.  Work will then begin upon updating the 2024 edition of the Town of Farmington Parks & Recreation Master Plan.

  1. Whitestone Incentive Zoning Project.    The Town Board, following its’ workshop on Monday, January 29, 2024, with the applicant, has received an amended concept drawing and a revised list of site amenities for what is currently being called the “Whitestone Incentive Zoning Project.”  At the Board’s meeting on Tuesday, February 27th, the Board voted to accept a draft local law for the proposed zoning map amendment, submitting a referral to the Ontario County Planning Board upon the rezoning proposal and scheduling a public hearing thereon for Tuesday, March 26, 2024.

The project seeks IZ Incentive Zoning for the development of 65 acres of land located along the east side of State Route 332, north of the State Police Troop E site and south of the Farmington Methodist Church site, then extending north to County Road 41 and east to Quentonshire Drive.  The site is currently zoned PD Planned Development allowing the former Glacier Lakes Waterpark Project, involving a mix of commercial and residential uses on the property.

Now being proposed are six (6) commercial sites (to be located along State Route 332), one (1) limited industrial site (a climate controlled self-storage building and two cold storage warehouse buildings located along the southside of County Road 41) and 280 townhouse units located internally on approximately 38 acres of the site.

The applicant is proposing an estimated 2.1 million dollars of improvements (zoning amenities) which include the installation of sidewalks along the east side of State Route 332, between Farmbrook Drive and County Road 41; funding a portion of a new signalized intersection of a future town road with State Route 332 opposite Barry Place; construction of two (2) town roads, with sidewalks along one side of each road, linking State Route 332 with County Road 41 and Quentonshire Drive; and a one hundred thousand cash contribution to the town to be used for funding a portion of the Beaver Creek Sanitary Sewer Project.

The Town Board tonight will be classifying the proposed Action, under the provisions of the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA), as an Unlisted Action and directing the preparation of Parts 2 and 3 of the State’s Full Environmental Assessment Form (FEAF).  Tomorrow night, the Ontario County Planning Board will be meeting and taking action upon the above referenced referral.  Meanwhile, the public is invited inspect the concept plan and view photos of other sites the applicant has constructed in both Chili and Webster, in Monroe County, which are on display located in the foyer (main entrance) at the Town Hall.

  1. Creekwood Townhouse Project – Phase Two.  The Town Planning Board, at their meeting on February 21, 2024, received a revised preliminary two lot subdivision plat application for a 40-unit townhouse project to be constructed along an extension of Quentonshire Drive/Pintail Crossing Drive, between the Pintail Crossing Apartment Project and the intersection of Redfern Drive and Running Brook Road.  The Planning Board has continued their deliberations upon this application to their April 3, 2024, meeting to allow time for the Zoning Board of Appeals to conduct a public hearing upon related area variances at their meeting on March 25, 2024.  

  1. Union Crossing Development LLC Project.  The Town Planning Board, at the February 21, 2024, meeting, continued their deliberations upon an amended final site plan drawing for the two previously approved warehouse buildings and related site improvements on land located along the north side of County Road 41 and the west side of County Road 8.  A new business will be coming, and their needs have resulted in the revised drawings being prepared for Planning Board approval.  The Applicant’s Engineer continues working with Town Staff making revisions requested to the submitted drawings.  The next appearance for this application will be on Wednesday, March 20, 2024.