LIVERMORE FALLS – Members of the Planning Board acted quickly Wednesday night in denying Wayne Parker Jr.’s application for a business to sell adult movies, magazines and other sex-related items. The vote was 5-1, with one abstention.
The reason given for the denial was that Parker showed no legal interest in the property, which is owned by his father, Wayne Parker Sr.
Parker Jr. had submitted a lease agreement with his application, but it was valid only for one week beginning Aug. 18, 2004, thus was no longer in effect.
The application was a revised one, dated Aug. 24. The original one was dated July 7 and had never been considered by the board because it was not complete. That application had included viewing booths, a factor not specifically included in his second plan.
Parker attempted repeatedly to have the board list any other defects with his application, but Chairman Guy Palmieri and Vice Chairman Elecia Pillsbury maintained the point was moot as the application had been denied.
Parker’s mother, Charolette Gray, objected to the board’s decision, noting that it must have been just a typo.
“Because of this little mistake, that excludes the whole thing?” she questioned. “His father owns it, he’s always had a legal interest in the property,” she said.
After the close of the session, the code enforcement officer, Brenda Medcoff, told Parker he had 30 days to appeal the decision.
He can file another application, but not until after the 180-day moratorium runs out on Jan. 31, 2005. A moratorium ordinance on new applications for adult businesses was approved by townspeople on Aug. 16 and was retroactive to Aug. 3.
Planners asked Medcoff to provide copies of adult-business ordinances that she has received from Farmington, Farmingdale and Saco so they can study them in order to compose one for the town.
The board also wants to meet with the selectmen to discuss mutual interests, but not at a regular session of either board. Medcoff is to seek a date when the two can have a one-item agenda.
In other business, the board gave approval, contingent on state and federal permits, to a site plan review submitted by Pam Letalien for a store selling dry goods and a pastry shop. She will be located in Central Plaza in the storefront closest to Rosy’s and hopes to be open by Nov. 1.
Letalien plans to bake in the store and will be offering only take-out items for now, but she may have seating later. She will offer coffee and tea at first, then perhaps soft drinks, she said.
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