A 47-apartment approval expires Wednesday. Webster's Planning Board holds the hearing Tuesday.

The Webster Planning Board holds a public hearing Tuesday night on whether to extend the site plan approval for Cobblestone Place Phase 2. It is a three-story, 47-unit apartment building at 1025 Ravenside Lane, behind Webster Plaza off Ridge Road. The approval expires the next day, Aug. 5.

The board's next scheduled meeting after Tuesday is Sept. 1, which falls after the approval lapses. That makes Tuesday the last regular meeting at which the board can act on it.

Under Section 269-17A, if a final site plan approval has expired and the applicant still wants to proceed, "the applicant shall be required to reapply for preliminary and final approval." The whole review starts over.

Section 269-17B requires an extension request before the approval lapses. It has to come early enough to allow publication, notice and a public hearing. That hearing "shall be held to consider whether such extension shall be granted." The code also lets the board attach "additional conditions or modifications" to the approval. The same board granted a one-year extension to the Sienna Reserve subdivision on July 7, after a hearing at which neighbors raised drainage concerns. Members said then that the question was whether to extend the approval, not to reopen the design.

The board is not deciding Tuesday whether an apartment building is allowed on this site. That was settled last August. After a public hearing, the board granted preliminary and final site plan approval for a three-story building on a five-acre lot in the Medium High Residential district. The town's approval describes its 47 apartments as market rate. The approval went to VOA Cobblestone Place HDFC Inc. with conditions. Among them was a provision making it "subject to the determination of the ZBA for requested variances."

The clock comes from the town's own approval letter, whose final approval checklist reads: "Significant construction shall occur within one year, as deemed by the Planning Board, to expire on 8.5.26." That is the letter's wording. Under Section 269-10B, a final site plan approval expires after one year unless a building permit has been taken out within that year for the work shown on the plan and site development or construction has begun, as the board determines.

An extension is the remedy the code provides when that one-year test has not been met. The plan set has kept moving through town and county comments, with revisions logged in December, February and May and a mylar issued July 6. The applicant on Tuesday's agenda is Brickwood Management of Rochester. The extension application was signed July 12, three weeks before the hearing. The plans give a completion target of fall 2027. Phase 1 is already built next door at 1023 Ravenside Lane.

The agenda calls the item a final site plan and subdivision approval extension. The approval letter grants site plan approval only. The application checks Site Plan Review and lists one lot. The underlying plats were filed with Monroe County in 2011 and 2020. The site plan approval is the live item.

Thirty-six more lots at Aberdeen

Aberdeen Estate Phase 3 returns Tuesday under tabled matters. Forest Creek Equity Corp. is seeking final site plan and subdivision approval for 36 single-family lots on a 52.44-acre parcel off Hazelhead Lane, in the R-3 Single-Family Residential district. The item has not been before the board since March 3, when it was tabled.

The same meeting approved Aberdeen Phase 2 with conditions, 20 lots on 17.10 acres. The two phases share a developer, a subdivision and a parent parcel: 56 single-family lots moving through the board inside six months. For scale, the board approved Bella Terra Phase 3, a 66-lot subdivision on Webster's south side on May 5.

Aberdeen Estates is an active Ryan Homes community. Phase 3 expands a neighborhood people already live in.

A sign company's own building, at sketch plan review

Vital Sign Building Addition at 764 Ridge Road is up for sketch plan review. The plan is a 15,000-square-foot one-story addition to an existing 11,000-square-foot building on about four acres. The parcel sits in the CO Commercial Outdoor Storage district, one of six commercial districts named in the development moratorium the Town Board adopted in June. The owner and applicant of record is Webster Auto Mall LLC. The business operating there makes interior and exterior signage.

The paperwork asks for a later step than the item lands on Tuesday. A June 16 letter of intent from the project's engineer asked the town to put it on the July 7 agenda "for preliminary & final review," with an $820 check enclosed for that review. It was not on the July 7 agenda. It appears Aug. 4 at sketch plan review. Under the code that step comes before preliminary approval and "shall not be a public hearing." Whether and when it returns for preliminary and final approval is a question for Tuesday night.

Monroe County reviewed it in June under General Municipal Law Section 239-m and urged electric-vehicle charging infrastructure.

Two sign packages

The 7 Brew drive-through coffee stand on Hard Road is back with the signage the board held out of its final approval July 7, when it gave the applicant about a month to file a separate signage plan. The agenda lists five signs totaling 107.11 square feet in the High-Intensity Commercial district, at 935 Hard Road. That is the address the parcel lacked in July, and the one emergency services require on the building.

Canandaigua National Bank is seeking four internally illuminated wall signs totaling 122.12 square feet at its branch at 1155 Ridge Road, in the Medium-Intensity Commercial district.

Neither sign item carries a public hearing. Both come to the board under Section 265-7 of the town code.

If you want to speak

The Planning Board meets at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 4, in the Town Board Room at 1002 Ridge Road. Cobblestone Place Phase 2 is the only item on the agenda that carries a public hearing.

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