Government
The Webster Town Board appointed a new wastewater treatment plant chief and joined a state cybersecurity program June 18, while holding off on an independent review of two proposed Verizon cell towers until July.
Government
Webster officials took up the environmental review of a major roadway project and heard a pitch to seek $150,000 in state funding for zoning code revisions at a June 18 workshop.
Planning & development
The Town Board meets Thursday, June 18. On the agenda: a state grant to fund rewriting Webster's zoning code, an outside review of two Verizon cell towers, and a change on the Zoning Board of Appeals.
Monroe County is converting Bay Road from four lanes to three starting June 15. Here is what the new design looks like, what the safety data shows, and what drivers should expect during construction.
Moving to Webster means joining a community with its own civic rhythms. None are complicated, but a few will surprise you if you don't know to look. 1. There are two governments, and they overlap Webster has a Town government and a Village government. The Village of Webster
You have more power at Webster Town Hall than you might think. Here is exactly how to use it.
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A development moratorium sounds sweeping. Webster's is narrow and precise, and on the ground it has frozen essentially one active project. Here is how the law actually works.
New York's June 23 primary is closed, so what's on your Webster ballot depends entirely on your party. Unaffiliated voters get nothing, Republicans one race (their statewide contests drew lone candidates), Democrats three. Here's what each group will see.
A special election Tuesday, June 16, decides a contested Village trustee seat and a proposition moving part of a vacant Xerox industrial parcel into the Town. Only registered Village voters may vote.
On June 9 the Zoning Board of Appeals granted a Webster homeowner a special use permit for up to eight hens and a backyard coop. Here is how the process works and why more of your neighbors have one than you would think.
You may have heard the ZBA mentioned at a town meeting or in a neighbor's permit dispute. Here is what it actually does, and how you can get involved.
The board tabled the Xerox solar farm permit challenge until July 14 and pushed Waterview Phase 3 to July. Five routine variance and permit applications were approved unanimously.
Webster Local Law No. 2 of 2026, enacted June 4, pauses commercial development approvals across every commercial zone in town. This explainer covers what's frozen, what's exempt, and which projects are already affected.
The town's Zoning Board of Appeals takes up a dispute over the Xerox campus solar farm's permit type and a 56-unit apartment complex that would need substantial front and buffer variances. Here is what to expect Tuesday night.
A physical altercation at a June 1 flag-raising and an overflow public comment session dominated the board's June 4 meeting. The board also enacted a six-month commercial development moratorium and authorized litigation counsel for the Montante Solar case.
The Webster Town Board votes tonight on a six-month commercial development moratorium. A 6:30 p.m. workshop first takes up the town's 2027 property revaluation and a proposal to convert wastewater plant gas into a revenue-generating renewable fuel.
The Planning Board tabled a proposed pickleball complex on Five Mile Line Road as engineering concerns remain unresolved and a zoning moratorium looms. A drive-through coffee kiosk on Hard Road got preliminary approval.
A 39,100-square-foot recreation complex is the centerpiece of an 11-item Planning Board agenda Tuesday night.