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.
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Over the past few years, I have been doing very informal surveys of businesses similar to those destroyed by the Beechwood fire in 2011. I told them that we really needed them on Beechwood and asked if they had ever considered locating there. Without fail, I was told that they had looked into Beechwood but that the rents were too high for them to survive.
Businesses that are surviving on Beechwood are located in older buildings where I assume the rents are more affordable. I support Chris Penton’s suggestion that developers be mandated to offer some commercial square footage at a reduced rate. I would suggest giving building permits only once a developer agrees to these terms. Otherwise it is going to be another 10 years before Beechwood is revived.
New Local Maple Business Opening This Weekend In Clinton
Although some may consider Maple Season to be a fall tradition, you can enjoy the wonder of maple year-round at a brand new local business in Clinton, NY.
The Shaw family began their personal maple business back in 2007 after a visit to a local high school s Annual Maple Weekend. After attending that event, something just
stuck. What started as a way of teaching their children the alternatives to unnatural and refined sweeteners has now grown to a retail business. Now, that retail business has it s own storefront. It s called Shaw s Maple Products.
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.
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 1/25/2021 4:40:24 PM
Legal review is ongoing in Temple for the 16,080-square-foot building Ben’s Maple Products LLC proposed for the corner of Route 101 and Webster Highway. Proponents of the project introduced what they believed were legal precedents for the project, which requires both a variance and a special exception from the Temple Zoning Board of Adjustment, at a hearing on Jan. 19. 42 people attended the virtual meeting.
At the crux of the request for a variance is an unusual situation: Applicant Ben Fisk obtained written permission from the former residents of an adjacent house, as was required since the proposed building is sited within 500 feet of that residence. However, homeownership has since passed to the mortgage finance goliath Freddie Mac, and the applicant’s months of requests for permission from the company have gone unanswered, according to representatives at last Tuesday’s meeting. The applicant’s lawyer, Tom Han