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This block will be torn down

Changes are being made to the character of our town. One whole block on Liberty Street is about to be demolished (pictured above) to make way for a drive through bank.

Residential houses to be demolished to make way for Zerges hotel

Further up the street residential houses in a neighborhood rezoned by the Penn Yan village board from single family residential to commercial are being torn down to make way for a hotel to be built by Rental Plus owner Brian Zerges.

residential houses used to sit on these lots; torn down to make way for parking lot

. Down at the opposite end of the same street (above), more residential houses have been torn down to make way for parking lots for the school.

this house to be torn down

Think about the village of Penn Yan. Think about your favorite part of the village - the place you would enjoy visiting if you were a tourist coming here for the first time.

detail of doorway on house to be torn down

Why do you like your favorite section of town? What makes it special? What can we do to protect the character of our town? How can we encourage growth without sacrificing the beauty and the very things we like best about our community?

house to be torn down

Given the drastic changes which are coming to our village, these are questions that planners in the local community should be asking.

house to be torn down

At a recent village of Penn Yan Long Range Planning and Development Committee meeting, chairman Michael Christensen and other committee members spent over one-half hour haranguing over the definition of "commercial vehicle". Should zoning code definitions, which have dominated this committee's work almost all year, be the top Long Range Planning priority of the village right now?

house to be torn down

The Genesee Transportation Council recently spent a good deal of taxpayer money conducting an extensive "Route 14A Corridor Study". What were the results of that taxpayer funded study? Who knows! When asked, local planners didn't know. Indeed, some were not even aware that the study had been conducted. Why conduct a long and extensive study if not to utilize the findings in some constructive way? To do otherwise can only be deemed a complete waste of taxpayer money. Click Here for more