HADLEY — A former farmstand on Rocky Hill Road, for sale by its owner, will not be allowed to be used for a commercial enterprise.
The Planning Board recently informed Sean Jeffords, CEO of the Easthampton-based Beyond Green Construction, that the 10 Rocky Hill Road building can only be used for agricultural purposes.
“A farmstand is the only permitted business at that site,” Planning Board Chairman James Maksimoski said.
Jeffords told the board he was looking to buy the farmstand, opened by the Gnatek family in 1983, as a possible showroom for his green-building company, along with another business his daughter might run.
The farmstand, which also had an attached ice cream parlor at one time, has been closed for several years.
Planning Board Clerk William Dwyer said any sale of the property is complicated by the fact that it can’t be used for a commercial business or for a home occupation, since there is no dwelling on the site.
An off-site overflow parking area for vehicles that belong to a Hadley car dealership will be moved from one Route 9 property to another following approval from the Planning Board.
The board this month gave Steve Lewis Subaru permission to have its overflow lot, which has been located for more than a year in front of Pulse Cafe, the former Long Hollow Bison Farm, at 270 Russell St., moved east to the rear parking lot of the Salvation Army store at 310 Russell St.
In a unanimous vote, the board determined that moving the lot was permissible, as long as all previous conditions it set, such as not having lighting, continue to be followed.
The decision means that the vehicles will be stored across the street from the 315 Russell St. dealership and will also be better screened from the road.
