The Mendon Town Board is meeting to consider a new sewer-zone district that will enable development of high-density housing along Mendon’s northern border with Pittsford. The Town Board is deciding whether to contract with Pittsford to provide sewers for the Mendon Green development along Route 64 in Mendon, leading to cluster housing known as PUD (Planned Unit Development).
“This proposal is not consistent with the guiding principles set out in Mendon’s Comprehensive Plan,” says Terry Kessler, longtime Mendon resident. “The Comprehensive Plan’s first guiding principle is to ‘preserve the scenic views, farms, and open spaces in the community’. Sewers would provide the infrastructure needed for high-density, cluster housing projects. Much of the land in Mendon’s northern border is within a two-mile radius of Mendon Ponds Park and this development would set a precedent that supports high-density PUD housing within an area designated as a wildlife protection zone.”
Mendon Supervisor John Moffitt said Mendon Green’s original proposal submitted several years ago was for 50 houses, but was put on hold when the economy took a downturn. In this new plan, developers want to double the houses to 90. He added that neither Monroe County, nor town board members, including himself, consider this development a PUD, something that was zoned out when the town board redid zoning laws.
“It is setting precedent for sewers in the town outside the village,” Moffitt said in a phone interview on Tuesday, November 27 and who will touch on this issue in his December 6 Supervisor’s Article in this newspaper. “This is important to think about.”
A vote on the sewer district is expected following a Public Hearing at the Mendon Town Hall on December 10 at 7:00 pm.
