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Here's a link to important documents.

These provide information about the status of Shadow Pines, including the Final Report of the Moratorium Committee and communications from Supervisor LaFountain since then.

What's at stake?
  • Shadow Pines serves as an essential buffer for the community from Dolomite's massive industrial quarry across the street. Neighbors further away from the quarry than the proposed development already complain about noise, dust, truck traffic, and dynamite explosions, which rattle their homes and sometimes break windows or crack walls.
  • Penfield does not have the infrastructure to support more development in the area. Do you want more traffic on Whalen, Browncroft, Atlantic, Five Mile Line Road and Huntington Meadow? Do you want higher school property taxes to accommodate more students than we can currently provide for?
  • ​Shadow Pines is extraordinary and beautiful land in the heart of Penfield. Western Penfield is the most developed part of the town. This may be the last opportunity to preserve such a large tract of land in this part of town that's filled with open fields, rolling hills, majestic stands of pine, a vibrant brook, and historic buildings and sites.​
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​Information

  • Click on the photo above and you can see the important role Shadow Pines and Shadow Lake play as buffers to the quarry/industrial site. There is an asphalt manufacturing plant within the quarry.
  • Here's a link to important documents.
    These provide information about the status of Shadow Pines, including the Final Report of the Moratorium Committee and communications from Supervisor LaFountain since then.
  • Shadow Pines and Shadow Lake are owned by the quarry company Dolomite/Oldcastle, a division of CRH PLC, a $30 billion building materials conglomerate headquartered in Ireland that has more than 90,000 employees in 4,000 locations around the world.
  • ​In 2016, Oldcastle put Penfield golf courses
    Shadow Pines and Shadow Lake up for sale. Shadow Lake was sold and remains as a golf course. Shadow Pines, however, was being marketed for residential development until town residents created Save Shadow Pines to preserve protect this beautiful open space in the heart of Penfield.

    Although the town's 2010 Comprehensive Plan designated the future use of both golf courses and the quarry as "recreation and sanctuary," they were never re-zoned with this protection.


​News

Please let the Penfield Town Board know you want to save Shadow Pines as open green space!
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