Three proposed businesses in the town of Boston have received approvals to take another step toward opening.
The town board unanimously authorized the site plan for Buffalo Buck’s Smokehouse Restaurant on Wednesday night, July 15.
Donald Buckley expects to open the barbecue establishment on the former Nana’s Nook property at 8038 Boston State Road in September or October.
“We’re hoping to offer something different to the town,” he said afterward.
Buckley and his son, Jake, plan to offer lunch and dinner seven days a week with all meals priced at $10 or less.
Officials endorsed the plan on the condition that Buckley install a garbage receptacle with an enclosure and a noise buffer on the property’s south side near residences.
Board members also allowed Dana Darling, the developer who built the Tim Hortons coffee shop at 7074 Boston State Road, to proceed with a fitness center behind the shop.
The town may issue him a building permit after he installs a fence, flagpole and gate for the garbage receptacle. Planning Board and Town Board members also expect him to landscape the property.
Officials also approved a rezoning request from William and Suzanne Williams for a maple syrup production facility at 6800 West Tillen Road.
The Williams’ asked for the property to be changed from Residential 2 to Residential Agricultural to allow a “sugar shack” where they will create and sell maple syrup.
Suzanne Williams said afterward that she and her husband have applied for a variance to build a house and “sugar shack” on the property. They consider maple syrup production a “hobby.”
The board may consider the variance at its next meeting at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5.
In another matter, the board selected Fairway Contracting in Orchard Park, the lowest of 10 bidders, to install a water line in East Hill Water District 3.
The town will pay the contractor $2,039,756 for the project, which the town’s engineer, Nussbaumer and Clarke Engineers and Surveyors, estimated would cost $2,394,100.
Supervisor Richard Hawkins emphasized that nine or 10 homes need water service to replace failing wells on Cole Road near Wohlhueter Road.
“The wells are not good,” he said.
Fairway Contracting installed the first phase of water lines in the district and has recently constructed water lines in the towns of Aurora and Amherst.
During board members’ reports, Councilwoman Cathleen Dobson announced that the equipment installation at the North Boston playground has been scheduled to start at 8 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 16, and will probably last about 12 hours.
The equipment for ages 2 to 5 will be standard playground items such as swings and slides while the equipment for ages 5 to 12 will be for climbing.
Those who want to volunteer to install the equipment may call Dobson’s cellular phone at 445-1356.
Dobson added she will discuss resurfacing the tennis courts at the town park with an engineer.
Hawkins also addressed the fallen trees in Eighteen Mile Creek, an ongoing problem the town has been working on. To prevent more trees from entering the creek, he stressed that trees along the banks should be removed.
“We need to cut down the trees and leave the stumps there for bank stabilization,” he said.
He added that Councilman Dave Ruzzine will head the log removal efforts, a cause Hawkins led before becoming the supervisor in June.
Ruzzine, who will also handle drainage issues, said he would like to have a map showing the places where drainage poses the largest problems.