When Northrup farm land fronting East Avenue was auctioned last month, it was mostly developers who were interested in the various parcels some of which abut the Village of Brockport.

One developer who purchased part of the property that backs up to Cloverwood Road in the Havenwood tract, Don Hibsch, has approached village officials with the idea of cluster housing.

Brockport Code Enforcer Bill Weber reported to the village board at its November 6 meeting that Hibsch may apply for cluster development approval. At this time, the Village of Brockport does not have the proper zoning in place for such development, but Weber said state law allows municipalities to amend their zoning law to allow it.

"The village board would have to adopt a local law setting the parameters," Weber said, "then the planning board would review the project."

Cluster housing allows a developer to build houses on smaller individual lots than allowed under regular residential housing in exchange for leaving part of the property open and undeveloped.

"Its purpose," Weber said, "is to preserve some open areas… to cluster the same number of houses that would be built under the regular zoning in a smaller area, reducing the amount of pavement and preserving a natural area."

In other business from the November 6 meeting: Brockport is negotiating with the Spencerport Volunteer Fire Department to provide dispatch service. The village already provides dispatch service to the Hamlin Volunteer Fire Department and the Town of Hamlin.

•Trustees added Rural Metro to Brockport’s third party-billing advanced life support ambulance service. Brockport had contracted with Monroe Ambulance, which will remain the village’s primary server, earlier this year, but had not reached an agreement with Rural Metro because of its higher fee scale. Mayor Mary Ann Thorpe said that despite the board’s unhappiness with Rural Metro’s higher user fees, the board felt a back-up provider needed to be in place.

•Saying he and village residents are tired of waiting for state action, Trustee Pete DeToy said he will bring a proposal, possibly to the next board meeting, to ban truck traffic, excepting local delivery, from the village. DeToy said the state has failed to act on its promise to erect truck route signs directing tractor trailer traffic around the village. "We’ve waited long enough," DeToy said. "In the meantime trucks keep hitting the overpass and village residents continue being inconvenienced by the traffic delays trucks cause. We’re very disappointed the state has not kept the promise it made to us months ago."