By a 5-4 vote on Tuesday night, the Rochester City Council voted to move forward with plans to demolish and rebuild the Cobb’s Hill Village apartments.
The split vote reflects the controversial nature of the project to replace the single-story apartment complex with a multi-story apartment and townhouse project. Much of the surrounding neighborhood opposed the larger project as out of character with the neighborhood and Cobb’s Hill Park.
Council voted in favor of Mayor Lovely Warren’s proposal to buy a parcel of land on Industrial Street for use as a temporary encampment for some of Rochester’s homeless who refuse to go into homeless shelters. It also approved a measure funding a study to look at filling in the remaining portion of downtown’s Inner Loop highway.
And Council voted in favor of a measure to ban gay conversion therapy in the city. It also approved donating the old Midtown Monorail train to the New York Museum of Transportation in Rush. The museum plans to set up one of the trains and part of the overhead track as a non-working exhibit.