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Planning Board favors smaller Lowe's facing
Volunteer Road

In a surpise move Monday night, the Geneseo Planning Board voted to reduce the size of the proposed Lowe’s in the Geneseo Town Centre from 169,000 to a maximium of 140,000 square feet. The vote for the approximately 17% reduction in size passed 3-2 with member Mark Shepherd abstaining. [...]

PDDG calls for negative or mitigated finding
on Newman FEIS

Please Don’t Destroy Geneseo has delivered a 120-page report to members of the Geneseo Town Planning Board calling for either a negative or a mitigated finding under SEQR on the Newman PDD application. The Planning Board will take up the matter at its regular meeting next Monday, May 12. [...]

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To the table, reluctantly

May 14, 2008 To the Table, Reluctantly I don’t like the Gateway Town Center proposal. I don’t like anything about it. I don’t think we need another big box and we surely don’t need another pharmacy. I don’t like the effects a Lowe’s will have on locally-owned hardware, lumber, appliance, kitchen and bath, and garden stores throughout the county. I am concerned that [...] more
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Hold that line!

May 13, 2008 Members of PDDG were pleasantly surprised by the decision of the Planning Board last night to cut back the size of the proposed Lowe’s and orient the building towards Volunteer Road to make the project more in keeping with the existing zoning. [...] more
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What's the hurry?

May 7, 2008 Sharyn responds to a pro-Lowe's commentary published by Ted Universal in a recent issue of the Livingston County News. This commentary also appears in this week's newspaper [...]. more

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Please Don't Destroy Geneseo (PDDG) is a citizens group founded in October of 2005 to oppose the proposal of Newman Development to obtain Planned Development District (PDD) zoning to build a 170,000 square foot Lowes on Rt. 20A in Geneseo.

The PDDG File contains some of the documents concerning Newman's application and the circumstances surrounding the passage of the PDD law in July of 2005. Documents pertaining to PDDG's efforts to obtain additional public records about this matter which was the subject of an Article 78 lawsuit against Geneseo Supervisor Wes Kennison and the Town of Geneseo in May of 2007 are also available.

Currently the Geneseo Planning Board is reviewing a Final Environmental Impact Statement filed by Newman. Public comments on the DEIS are also online.

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