Harrison Thorp ROCHESTER – When Marilyn Johnson Foster left Wednesday’s Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting she felt like a weight had been lifted from her shoulders; the ZBA had just denied a variance that would have allowed Community Action Partnership to build a four-story L-shaped building that would have housed 35 residential units for the elderly. “Yes, I was very happy,” she said on Friday, “That is, until we found out from Seth (Rochester Planning Director...
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The view from Marilyn Foster's back door, a view that will be much obscured by the north side of a four-story apartment complex; inset, Wakefield Street resident Marilyn Foster and Rochester Planning and Development Director Seth Creighton (Rochester Voice photo; inset photos: City of Rochester screenshots)
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