AURORA - The look on C.J. Koepp's face as she walked out of the Aurora village planning board meeting, smiling peacefully, said it all.

After months of meetings and discussion, progress has at been made in Koepp's controversial efforts to move Webb House, a structure that has been situated on steel beams along Main Street in the village for more than two years.

“I'm happy and relieved,” Koepp said. “We have been to 14 meetings and six public hearings on the project and I'm very happy something is happening.”

In their regular meeting, the planning board voted in favor of the final site plans submitted by Koepp.

This motion was the culmination of work that began in February when Koepp first made plans to move the house.

True progress in Koepp's favor began in June when the planning board voted in favor of the demolition of Lake House, the structure that was situated where Koepp plans to relocate Webb House.

The move to tear down the Lake House structure raised some concern within the village, but Koepp said that it was never her intention to destroy any of the historic homes within the village, but only to help preserve them.

“There were no beams in the building,” Koepp said. “The foundation was rotten. It could not be saved. I would have been happy to live in Lake House if that had been possible, but there was no way.”

This vote in favor of Koepp's plans for Webb House, she believes, will actually also help save Lyon House, a property that will not be accessible until Webb House is moved.

Through the course of the proceedings, meeting with the zoning board and planning board, Koepp faced many setbacks and changes and requirements, but her persistence to see this project through kept her going.

“I'm a historian,” Koepp said. “I believe in preservation and preserving the homes in the village. We put so much work into this we were committed to see this project through.”

While the board did vote in favor of the final site plans, the motion was carried with several contingencies.

Current plans call for a driveway that would be shared with a property known as Lyon House and that would be in part on Wells College property, which the board has asked to see an easement granting permission for the property use.

The board has also asked to see if the DEC or DOT would have any requirements of a permit for storm water drainage on the property.

Also several small changes to the actual printed site plans required by village law, including names and addresses of the applicants as well as a dimensional reference for the size of the house, need to be included.

Koepp said she believes she is already in possession of or in the process of acquiring much of this paperwork.

Koepp said she has already been approved for a mortgage on the property and would like to close by Nov. 18 and begin the process of moving the house and getting it closed off before winter sets in.

“I don't know how soon we'll be able to move in,” Koepp said. “It is already beautiful structurally inside. But before winter we'd like to have it closed up so it is ready to be moved into.”