After a two-year process, Belletetes received approval from the Jaffrey Planning Board Tuesday night for a proposed expansion project.
The project entails constructing a 7,200 square-foot maintenance garage and a 13,440 square-foot material storage warehouse on land abutting the Jaffrey location’s Peterborough Street footprint.
Planning Board chair Tim Gordon said the site plan was approved during a meeting on Tuesday with a few conditions.
Conditions include approval of an alteration of terrain permit by the state, the completion of a third-party review of the project’s stormwater management system, and a compliance hearing sometime in November after construction is complete.
Gordon said Wednesday morning that he was the lone dissenting vote in the approval of the project.
“I didn’t feel we had seen all the data we needed to make the decision,” Gordon said. “There is a third party review the board has asked for that had not yet been received.”
The project’s approval has been in the works since July of 2017 when Belletete’s approached the Jaffrey Zoning Board for three variances: to fill in two small, man-made wetlands, to permit impervious cover within the wetlands conservation district, and to permit pavement within the town’s required 30-foot setbacks for the general business district.
The Zoning Board approved the variance requests on July 8, 2017 and then again on Sept. 26, 2017 after two Jaffrey residents – Randy Christmas and Robert Aho – requested a rehearing in accordance with state law.
Aho and Christmas also filed an appeal with the Cheshire Superior Court in Oct. 2017, but a judge dismissed it in December. The judge said the group didn’t follow the state-mandated procedure for zoning board reviews.