LIVERMORE — The Livermore Planning Board on Wednesday approved a site plan review application for a Dollar General store on Route 4.

The site is next to the town’s ball fields, with an apartment building on the west side of the property. A public hearing on the proposed store is scheduled to take place 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 18, at the Town Office.

Zaremba Group Senior Development Manager Todd Hamula said the intent was “to develop the property and construct a Dollar General retail store at this site.”

Hamula said the goal was to buy the property and break ground in May, with the store opening in August.

He said the company looks for property that’s for sale and properly zoned and in a location where a store could be profitable. Hamula said there hasn’t yet been a transition of ownership, although the property is under contract.

“Dollar General comes to our company and tells us where they would like to go,” he said. “It’s as simple as that.”

The store would be 9,100 square feet and would be located on two acres. The total size of the property is 12 acres, and Hamula said the part of the land not occupied by the store would be offered to the town.

“We don’t need to sell it; we don’t need to make any money on it,” he said. “We’d just give it to the town — simple as that.”

There would be 30 parking spaces, with one driveway into the site off Route 4. 

Hamula noted that Dollar General is a convenience store that sells name-brand goods. Hamula said it could offer a lot of the services of a “big-box” store in a much smaller area.

“I’d hate to see a situation where trucks are coming late at night or early in the morning,” Planning Board member Thomas Posa.

Hamula said trucks will come only during store hours, between 9 a.m. and 10 p.m., and only once a week. Most of the time, they will come during daylight hours, he noted.

Posa said people live across the street from the proposed store and suggested a cutoff time at night for delivery trucks.

“I understand what you’re saying and I understand the point you’re making, but the most I’d be able to agree to is there will be no deliveries after the store closes,” Hamula said.

J. Chris Nadeau, director of Commercial Services for Nobis Engineering, which is doing the engineering work, said the project has met state requirements for erosion control and stormwater runoff.

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