Memorandum                                        

TO:            Farmington Town Board

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

                  Dan Delpriore, Town Code Enforcement Officer   -  Daniel Delpriore

DATE:       May 14, 2024

RE:            Report for Town Board Meeting on Tuesday, May 14, 2024.

The following report is for this week’s Town Board Meeting, and it is for the period April 23, 2024, through May 13, 2024.

Town Board Resolutions (3)

1. Resolution authorizing the Code Enforcement Officer, Dan Delpriore, to attend the NYS Building Officials Conference (NYSBOC) Business Meeting on June 7, 2024, in Albany at a cost not to exceed $250.00.

2. Resolution authorizing the Town Supervisor to sign a Proposal for Professional Services from MRB Group for the Park & Recreation Master Plan Update at a cost not to exceed $47,500.00.

3. Resolution continuing the public hearing upon the Whitestone Incentive Rezoning Action to Tuesday, May 28, 2024.

     Town Projects Update

1. FEDERAL HIGHWAY TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES PROGRAM (TAP) GRANT AWARD.  Construction work has begun on the first of twelve sections to receive new pedestrian sidewalks under the Federal Highway Administration’s TAP Award.  The first section involves approximately 600 linear feet of sidewalk to be installed along the south side of County Road 41, between Savalla Boulevard and State Route 332 sidewalks.  While this work is being done, design plans are being prepared for a new pedestrian/bicycle bridge crossing of Beaver Creek that is located west of Savalla Boulevard.

2. 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.  The delay in completing this remaining portion of the Complete Streets Improvement Project is caused by the tie-ins of a public sewer service to a few existing residential properties located along the southside of Town Line Road, in the Town of Canandaigua.  The Canandaigua Town Board, at their last meeting, approved of the connections for these properties and it is anticipated the work will be completed this summer.

    

3. Brickyard Road Water Tank & Transmission.  Construction work has begun on both the installation of a new 16-inch water transmission line between the Brickyard Road Tank Site and the Canandaigua/Farmington Town Line Road and the installation of a new water storage tank located at the existing tank site on Brickyard Road.  The waterline section in the access driveway to the water storage tank is complete.  The section of watermain between Purdy Road and the Canandaigua/Farmington Town Line Road is currently being installed.  This project is scheduled for substantial completion in the fall of 2025.      

4. Monarch Manor Incentive Zoning Project, Section 2.

There are portions of three (3) two-dwelling unit buildings occupied in Section 2.  In addition, there are four (4) 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 continues within Sections 1 and 2.  Eventually within Section 2 there will be twenty-four (24) buildings having a total of forty-eight (48) single-family dwelling units. 

5. Auburn Meadows Subdivision, Section 8S.

There are 6 dwellings still under construction within this section of the Auburn Meadows Subdivision Project located along both sides of Ackerman Way, between the Marion Way and Jasper Drive intersections.  Over the past two-week period the Town issued two certificates of occupancies within this section. 

 

6. 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 are now complete.  Once all stormwater related improvements have been accepted, the next step involved is with closing out this project.

7. Redfield Grove Incentive Zoning, Section 3, Commercial 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 also 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.   

 

The first project seeking site plan approval involves Lot #1, an existing lot with a one-story single-family dwelling at 5998 State Route 96, east of Commercial Drive.  The Planning Board has received an application for a tanning and waxing business and will be considering this application at their June 19, 2024, meeting.  The site is just west of Toritos Cantina restaurant.              

8. Hathaway’s Corners Incentive Zoning Project. All of the one-hundred fifty-one (151) townhouse dwelling units located within Phase 1A of the Hathaway’s Corners 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 site will be a total of eleven (11) apartment buildings having a total of 88 apartment units.  All these buildings are now under construction and Certificates of Occupancy issued for the first two buildings.      

Within a portion of 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.  Concrete sidewalks have been installed completing the pedestrian systems along Eddy Gate Way, Cooper Place and the entire length of Osburn Lane.  There will be a total of thirty (30) single-family dwellings constructed along 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 [a private roadway].  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. 

                                        

9. RG&E Substation 127 Expansion Project. The expansion project is located along the east side of [961] Hook Road 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.

10. 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.  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.

11. 1816 Quaker Meetinghouse Museum Project.  The Town has been assisting the 1816 Quaker Meetinghouse Museum Board of Directors (BOD) 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.  The Town has identified the site improvements necessary to allow the museum to install the driveway and parking lot area of the site using asphalt millings from the County Road 8 Highway Project that begins tomorrow.  The BOD has worked a long time seeking and obtaining federal and state grants to allow this part of our country’s history to be made available again to the public.

12. 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 continues marketing the project, known as “Ontario Gateway Business Park.”

13. 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.

    

14. Loomis Road Industrial Park Project. The Town Board, at its November 14^th 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.

 

15. CountryMax Building Project. The building continues to be enclosed and soon the interior work will commence on this 68,000 square foot office/warehouse building. 

A new sidewalk has been constructed across a portion of this project’s frontage along the south side of Collette 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 on Collett Road near the driveway to Ultra Fab.  This sidewalk has not been dedicated to the Town and is not open to the public for their use at this time.

16. Farmington Market Center Project. The Town has been informed that preliminary overall site development drawings are being prepared for the project and are scheduled to be submitted in June of this year.  Once preliminary subdivision plat maps and site plan drawings with engineering details for the Planning Board’s review and approvals have been completed, 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.  The first three (3) projects seeking final site plan approvals include a new freestanding Canandaigua National Bank Farmington Branch Office with drive-up tellers, a Tops Fueling Station, and a Mavis Tire Center.   

17. 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 has been renovated for use as the sales office and auto repair operations.  Television advertisements are starting to appear and a formal grand opening is scheduled for later this spring.

Also, a part of this project involves two (2) special use permits 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. 

18. Farmbrook Site Plan Applications, Sections 7A & 7B.  A pre-construction meeting for this project was held on Tuesday, May 2, 2024, followed by a notice to proceed with the development of seventy (70) single-family dwellings to be constructed upon lots located within Sections 7A and 7B of the Farmbrook Planned Subdivision Project. 

19. 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.  The owner reports that 18 of the 20 units are already leased and await site paving followed by issuing Certificates of Occupancy for these 20 rental units.

20. A Safe Place Storage, Phase 2.  The owner is now making site improvements for the construction of one (1) additional cold storage building. Once the topsoil screening and sales operation is complete then the developer will be seeking building permits for the construction of the one (1) remaining cold storage building that is to be located on the northeastern portion of the site. 

Finally, a part of this project involved construction of Commercial Drive south to the property line and the construction of a sidewalk along the west side of Commercial Drive to the south property line.  These two components are complete and have been accepted by the Town Board.  Still remaining is the installation of three (3) streetlights.

21. Paddock Landing Project (formerly known as the Power Incentive Zoning Project).  Preliminary Overall Subdivision Plats and Overall Preliminary Site Plans have been approved by the Planning Board.  The Town awaits receiving the drawings for signatures and the filing with the Town Clerk’s Office.  Once filed, the Town’s Official Zoning Map will be amended to delineate the new IZ Incentive Zoning District boundaries.  Following this action, the applicant intends to submit final subdivision plat and final site plan drawings for Planning Board approvals.  Once approvals have been granted, the final subdivision plat drawings will be filed with the Ontario County Clerk’s Office, a Letter of Credit for site improvements within Phase One will be filed with the Town Clerk’s Office and a Pre-Construction Meeting scheduled with State and Town Officials prior to issuing a Notice to Proceed with site development.

22. Open Space Index Update.  The Town of Farmington Environmental Conservation Board (ECB) continues completion of the update to the Town’s Open Space Index (OSI).  The OSI 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.    

23. Parks & Recreation Plan Update – Residents Survey.  The Town Board, at their meeting on May 14, 2024, is expecting to approve a proposal from the Town Engineers for updating the 2018 Edition of the Town of Farmington Parks and Recreation Master Plan.  Following the approval an advisory committee will be created and a schedule of public workshop meetings will be created.  Work on this project is expected to commence in June and be substantially completed early next year.

24. Whitestone Incentive Zoning Project.    The Town Board met in a workshop session on Tuesday afternoon, May 7^th to discuss the applicant’s proposed list of permitted land uses and a list created by town staff.  The Town Board, at their meeting tonight, is expected to continue the public hearing to their next meeting on Tuesday, May 28^th, at which time a final proposed list will be discussed.  The rezoning application involves two tax map account containing a total of approximately 66 acres of land located along the east side of State Route 332, between the New York State Police Troop E Headquarters on the south and County Road 41 on the north.  The project also extends easterly to Quentonshire/Pintail Crossing highways.  Below is the concept plan for the development of these two parcels of land which is under consideration.

25. Creekwood Townhouse Project – Phase Two.  The Town Zoning Board of Appeals, at their meeting on April 22, 2024, approved a number of area variances needed for existing buildings within the Pintail Crossing Apartment Complex Project – Phase 1 and a number of proposed townhouse buildings within the adjacent land owned by the Pintail Crossing LLC.  The variances were deemed necessary to allow the construction of a new town road connecting through the area and ending at the intersection of Redfern Drive and Running Brook Drive.  With these variances the applicant can move forward with Final Subdivision Plat approval and a Preliminary Site Plan application for the development of 40 townhouse dwelling units and the construction and dedication of Pintail Crossing as a public highway. 

26. Union Crossing Development LLC Project.  The Town Planning Board, at their March 20, 2024, meeting, granted final site plan approval for the construction of the first of 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 has resulted in the revised drawings being prepared for the first phase of this site’s development.  The Town awaits receipt to the amended final site plan drawings for signatures and starting the pre-construction process.  The applicant would like to start construction on this project this summer.

27. Commercial Drive Solar Projects, East & West.  The Town Planning Board, at their April 17^th meeting received applications and opened public hearings for two special use permits and two site plan approvals for two separate but related solar array projects to be located on land south of the American Lumber and Safe Place Storage sites along the south side of Collett Road and the New Energy Works site and the northern end of Commercial Drive on the south.  The two sites will be separated by the construction of Commercial Drive linking the northern section with the southern section of said highway.  The project also includes construction of a new public water line and sidewalks.  Each site will have solar arrays and on-site battery storage units for distribution of the solar power to the electrical grid to allow local residences and businesses to purchase. The Planning Board continued these public hearings to May 17^th to time allow for the completion of the coordinated review with involved and interested agencies as part of the State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) regulations.  The Planning Board, at their meeting tomorrow night, is expected to designate themselves as the Lead Agency for completing the environmental record and making a determination of significance upon the proposed Action.  The Board may then request the drafting of Parts 2 and 3 of the Full Environmental Assessment Forms for their review and acceptance at a future date.