Tuesday, January 10, 2017

PLANNING BOARD CONTINUES POST OFFICE PROJECT DUMPSTER HEARING TONIGHT

The Planning Board tonight will continue its review of the multi-dumpster structure being proposed for the parking lot next to the former Maplewood Village post office project. 

The board has spent the past two meetings reviewing the request from JMF Properties, which is building the three-story, 20-apartment, five-shop structure on the site. It will include a 120-seat restaurant to be run by Maplewood residents Tom and Jennifer Carlin who operate a similar eatery in Gladstone.

JMF has requested that the dumpster space be added for the restaurant to the site plan, which currently does not allow it. Initially, it was thought to be an enclosed structure to house one dumpster.

But at a Maplewood Village Alliance (MVA) meeting in November it was revealed the structure would house nine dumpsters, with two or three of them for existing businesses Village Coffee and Mt. Fuji whose dumpsters are currently behind their buildings and not enclosed.

The dumpsters would be housed in a structure that would take up at least two existing parking spaces in the Village Coffee lot near the pedestrian tunnel to Memorial Park. 

The structure would be eight feet high, 25 feet wide and 18 feet deep. 

Tonight's meeting is set for 8 p.m. at Town Hall. See the full agenda HERE.

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