From the start of the Whole Foods Plaza project in 2015, traffic has been a concern of neighbors, businesses in the surrounding Monroe Avenue corridor, and state officials. But the state Department of Transportation has signaled that it’s satisfied with the developer’s plans to offset some of the project’s traffic impacts. The DOT has completed […]
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Henrietta hopes to modernizing its zoning
Henrietta is an evolving suburb, though that may not be apparent to the people who live outside of the community. Its commercial corridors – which are often hypocritically mocked by the very people who flock to them – are an ever-changing mix of big-box stores, restaurants, car dealerships and service garages, and office complexes. Marketplace […]
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Rochester’s apartment boom
For more on this topic: See Mary Anna Towler’s “City should turn down University Ave. project” in this week’s Urban Journal. This is a corrected version of this story. If you’ve been trying to track down Rochester Mayor Tom Richards, odds are good you can catch him at a ribbon cutting. Voters Block, Bridge Square, […]
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Growth without growth
Like a lot of people, Neil Jaschik has his e-mail set up to append a quote to each outgoing message. Jaschik’s, attributed to the second-century Rabbi Tarfon, reads this way: “It may not be your obligation to finish the task; but neither are you permitted to refrain from beginning it.” They’re fitting words for anyone […]
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Growing, growing… gone? The ‘rural’ county
Thirty years ago, people driving to Rochester from the south would have seen a landscape of mainly farms, fields, and woods. Now, most of that bucolic countryside is little more than a memory, replaced by shopping malls, tract housing, and the odd mix of commercial accretion that follows suburbia. US Census Bureau data […]
