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Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 5/3/2021 6:48:04 AM
The Temple ZBA approved an expansion of Ben’s Maple Products LLC on Thursday evening. The decision allows the 16,080-square-foot building proposed for the corner of Route 101 and Webster Highway to go before the Planning Board and Select Board.
“Everyone’s very excited at work today,” applicant Ben Fisk said on Friday. Although the ZBA mulled the proposal since September 2020, Fisk said he expects the rest of the process to be easier as the proposal moves through its other approvals.
“We’re very excited here that we got a yes from the Board,” Fisk said. “There are some stipulations that they want to put in, but we can work through those.”
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 4/21/2021 1:20:05 PM
A decision could come as early as next Thursday about the proposed expansion of Ben’s Maple Products LLC in Temple. The Temple ZBA scheduled a meeting for April 29 to hear additional testimony from a second traffic expert after a discussion during their meeting on Tuesday evening.
Ben’s Maple Products LLC initially proposed a 16,080-square-foot building proposed for the corner of Route 101 and Webster Highway last September. The Board opted to hire their own real estate and traffic consultant after deeming the applicant’s expert testimony insufficient in early March.
The Board had been skeptical of the applicant’s traffic expert’s estimate that the store would attract a maximum of six vehicles per hour in the morning, but the second consultant’s review as presented last night didn’t reexamine that rate, ZBA Chair John Kieley said.
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 3/3/2021 1:52:33 PM
The Temple Zoning Board of Adjustment is hiring third party consultants to weigh in on the proposed expansion of Ben’s Maple Products LLC into a 16,080-square-foot building proposed for the corner of Route 101 and Webster Highway. Tuesday night marked the 10th hearing for the proposal since it was originally pitched in September, 2020. Applicant Ben Fisk said he plans to construct the building under agricultural zoning provisions if the current application is rejected.
“The ZBA is unanimous in feeling that we have insufficient information on traffic and real estate values in order to make a decision that’s fair to the applicant and fair to the town of Temple,” ZBA Chair John Kieley said Tuesday night after the ZBA broke away to speak with legal counsel after a continuation of the project’s public hearing.
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 2/3/2021 5:17:22 PM
Temple’s Conservation Commission decision not to enter a contract allowing Ben Fisk to harvest maple sap from the Temple Town Forest was upheld after Fisk brought his objection to the Select Board and was heard at their Monday night meeting.
Fisk currently has 50 active taps set up on the town land on North Road, which the Conservation Commission agreed to let him keep using until the end of the current sugaring season. Fisk got on the Select Board’s Monday night agenda, which was scheduled specially to discuss the postponement of Town Meeting and voting, after he asked to get on the Jan. 26 meeting agenda but was skipped after a Board member forgot to mention him, Select Board Chair Ken Caisse said.