Harvester Market in Greenfield will no longer be installing storage units in the basement.
Planning Board chair Paul Renaud announced at Monday’s board meeting that Harvester Market’s owner, Peter Davenport, had withdrawn his site plan, which proposed to add 54 storage units in the basement. Renaud said he was notified by Davenport that he would withdraw his application because some of the changes required by code enforcement were cost prohibitive.
“He said that installing a sprinkler system in the building would be cost prohibitive,” said Renaud, in an interview Tuesday afternoon. “That was the main reason he told me.”
Davenport could not be reached by press time for comment.
Davenport brought his proposal to the Planning Board on June 13. At that time, the board said that they wanted an opinion from the fire department about any safety concerns associated with adding the units.
Renaud said he walked the property with code enforcement officer Mike Borden last week.
Renaud said that the primary area of concern was the lack of a sprinkler system. If the storage space was to be added, it was also required that Davenport add ice and snow restrictors on the roof and a second egress.
“[Borden] told me that the sprinkler system was needed because of the limited egresses and to protect the property that would be stored there in the event of a fire.”
Nicholas Handy can be reached at 924-7172 ext. 235 or nhandy@ledgertranscript.com. He is also on Twitter @nhandyMLT.