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Lanstng residents worryabout growth
the business Residents of other areas hood," Williams said. "Every-
Sy JESSICA KELP the town, dividingems be
Journal Staff district to create a town center also advocated for lower den- on��liams said he asked 15 of ,
it."
LANSING — At a ton and pushing Lakeshore (Ll) sity designations. neighbors
zoning an additional 1,000 feet Donna Mazza, a seven-year his the Chan d all either
board meeting attended by back from the shoreline. resident of a rural agriculture opposedg
or about 50 people Wednesday Residents of Fiddler's (RA) district on Buck Road, more information.
night, Lansing residents told Green, a neighborhood in the said she has seen more and Steve Farkas, town supervi-
their representatives what they western part of the town near morepeople moving in since sorthanked and said ndents o changes had
for their .
did and did not like about the Route 34, asked for an R1 des- she settled there. input
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town's plans to change its zon- ignation instead of R2, which "It's more and' more less been made yet.
ing laws. they said would preserve their farmland and more resi- "Lansing is changing so fast
"I know growth is good and neighborhood. • dentes," Mazza said. "I . was that we're going to have to
everything, but it shouldn't be "We would just like to be the first house on the left and Changs e sa h it as we go,"
at the expense of the neigh- treated equally with the other now I'm the fourth."
borhood," said Armstrong Rl communities," Jim Eyster She asked that her neigh- The board took no action
Road resident Dale Williams. said. borhood become mixed-use on the changes Wednesday
Williams spoke against Bill Warmuswarned that an residential (R3) instead of the night.
ht. Farkas said kss the new eon ng
had i
changing his street from a low- R2 designation could mean RA designation. P p
of
density (R1
) moderate-
typesResidentswhich southeast sby e b
deresidential2) zoedevelopment, and said traffic part he town, is butthinksitill be closer to
Major changes
proposed to has increased in the area in askedthat higher
ghe n density,
Shattuck,the end of the month.deputy supervisor,d
the Town of Lansing's zoning recent years. the board
laws include establishing a "If it's in the zoning, it could hoods not be changed. planning
trice tdensity residential
the st fiend of hood," Warnius said.neighbor-n in your well-established undermines neighbor- modify the changes. and
trict at the southeast
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