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Developer seeks approval for apartment community in Victor
A rendering of one of the three proposed 52-unit apartment buildings along Victor Heights Parkway. (Rendering from public documents provided to the town of Victor Planning Board)
A rendering of one of the three proposed 52-unit apartment buildings along Victor Heights Parkway. (Rendering from public documents provided to the town of Victor Planning Board)
Developer seeks approval for apartment community in Victor
The development team for a proposed 156-unit apartment community along Victor Heights Parkway will be back before the Town of Victor Planning Board tonight, the latest step in the process for project approval.
Auburn Trail Properties LLC, an entity operated by developer Mark DiFelice, intends to build a three-building apartment community at 200 Victor Heights Parkway. There would be 52 units in each four-story building.
Located within a Planned Development District and adjacent to the Finger Lakes Community College Victor Campus Center, the project has received zoning approval from the Town Board.
The developer is seeking permission to subdivide the parcel into three lots: one for the FLCC building on 6.654 acres; one of 14.02 acres for the apartments and another of 3.298 acres for TCL Adventures in Child Care.
Some planning board members and residents have expressed concern about the building heights at previous meetings and during public hearings. But James, founder and principle at James Fahey Design, said four stories hits the project sweet spot.
Reducing the height to three stories would eliminate 42 units, “so feasibility becomes not feasible,” Fahey told the planning board at a July 14 meeting.
Fahey’s firm has designed numerous multifamily communities across New York and in neighboring states, including Perinton Hills the under-construction The Arbors in Penfield. While high-density buildings have not always been the preference within a municipality, he said they now have appeal.
“I’ve seen a real change of heart in villages and townships over the past four to six years in embracing these strategically placed, higher-density, infill communities,” Fahey told the board, “because they make economic sense, they are smart sustainability-wise. It’s becoming part of forward-thinking towns and villages.”
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