Three separate developers wanted the Clay Town Board's permission this spring to build a bank or credit union with drive-thru service — and all three showed up on the same night. At the board's April 21, 2025 meeting, members opened or scheduled public hearings on drive-thru proposals from Seneca Savings, Northern Credit Union and Canandaigua National Bank, a cluster that put variations of the same question to the board three times over. The clearest test came from Northern Credit Union's request to rezone 5004-5008 West Taft Road from Planned Development District and Residential District to Neighborhood Commercial District, to allow a bank with drive-in service. Attorney Brody Smith of Bond, Schoeneck and King told the board the applicant had already revised its plans once in response to an earlier hearing, moving the proposed building closer to Taft Road and widening the berm and buffer facing homes to the south. Smith said the applicant had also switched its zoning request to the more limited O-2 Office District, at Deputy Supervisor Joseph Bick's suggestion. Bick described the change as a significant concession, saying it made the project less intrusive and more agreeable to residents. Neighbors weren't fully satisfied. Daniel Corbet, who lives on Wintersweet, said he was concerned about losing privacy given how much traffic already comes through from Metropolitan Drive, and asked why a bank with a drive-thru needed 45 parking spaces; Bick said the number is set by code. Colleen Dillenbeck of Astilbe Path asked about the one-way in, one-way out driveway design and was told ATM customers' headlights would shine north toward Taft Road. Sandy Laurente told the board she was already seeing more traffic off Metropolitan Drive and asked what would happen to Wintersweet once the apartments, a bank, a credit union and the McDonald's are all built nearby. The board referred the application to the Planning Board and adjourned the hearing to May 5. The other two banking applications drew less discussion. Jesse Plumley described Seneca Savings' plan for a single driveway onto Route 31 near Stearns and Burnet roads, with hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to noon Saturdays. The board referred it to the Planning Board and adjourned the hearing to May 5 — one of the few motions all night for which the minutes do not record an ayes-noes tally. The board also scheduled, without recorded discussion, a May 5 hearing on Canandaigua National Bank's application for a drive-in bank on nearly 75 acres of Oswego Road land. A fourth hearing turned up a paperwork wrinkle rather than a banking question. Justin's Canine Campus, a proposed dog daycare for the former Firestone space in Marketfair North Plaza on Route 31, had been publicly advertised as sitting on +/-15.06 acres — roughly the footprint of the whole shopping plaza — when the actual tax parcel is 0.345 acres. Representative Tim Coyer of Ianuzi and Romans told the board the error didn't require re-advertising the hearing, since the real site is far smaller, and therefore less intense, than what neighbors had been told to expect. Coyer said the operator, currently on Route 57, expects around 100 dogs a day, no more than 25 in the outdoor fenced area at once, and would close its existing location if the move is approved. That hearing was also adjourned to May 5. Elsewhere, the board unanimously adopted a zone change from Highway Commercial to Senior Residential district, clearing the way for the Laurel Springs senior housing project on 4.74 acres of West Taft Road land. It also reworked its paving priorities: a hearing on 2025 Community Development Block Grant funding shifted urgent repaving to Woodward Way and Winchester Drive, which the Highway Superintendent found in worse condition, pushing Steelway Blvd. South back to 2027. A separate hearing opened the 2026 CDBG application for Maltage Drive and Goguen Drive; resident Janet Rathburn asked how the funding criteria applied to commercial areas, and Bick said eligibility is based on residential mean income. The board also approved a $656,184.00 transfer from its Capital Reserve Account to buy two new plow trucks for the Highway Department, and signed off on a drainage easement with 3567 RT 31 TT, LLC and a separate stormwater maintenance easement with KRSM, LLC on Buckley Road. Every recorded vote of the night passed 6-0, with Damian Ulatowski and David Tessier absent. All three bank hearings, along with the Northern Credit Union rezoning and the Justin's Canine Campus permit, return to the board on May 5 — this time with Planning Board recommendations in hand.