The Dresden Planning Board voted 4-0 on Tuesday to table any action on the Dick Condon gravel pit permit until the board’s August meeting. The Dresden Appeals Board had returned the application to planners on April 26, claiming that that board had not properly voted on the checklist of application requirements, although the substance of the approval appeared to be in order.

“We will not be discussing any of it,”  said Planning Board Chairman Jeff Pierce. Condon and abutters were still conducting surveys on disputed boundaries, he said.

“There is no sense voting two or three times,” Pierce said after the meeting. He said that the board had not followed the necessary vote requirements when it approved the application on Dec. 15, 2015.

“He (Condon) will not be digging this year,” Pierce said at the meeting. Pierce expressed the opinion that the proposed 10-acre lot as designed may not turn out to be commercially viable when the approved setbacks and reclamation requirements are met. 

“Nobody thinks that the 35 loads of gravel were worth it,” said Pierce.

In other business the board had a first look at an application by Todd Bolduc of Gray Wing Farm to construct and operate a small chicken slaughtering house and farmstand at the former Gloria Gould property near the Dresden Post Office.

Although the property is in the village district, the board agreed that the application was a minor development and would be eligible for conditional approval as an agricultural project.

Bolduc said he qualified for a special exemption from commercial licensing and inspections because he would be slaughtering fewer than 1,000 chickens per year. He only plans to process 30 home-grown chickens three times a year.

Bolduc also hopes to raise rabbits and goats on the 17-acre parcel.

Board member Linda Biden questioned the possibility of odors in the village area and asked what Bolduc planned to do with chicken waste.

Bolduc said that waste would be composted and that wash water would be disposed in the woods away from homes.

“It is only chickens raised on my property,” said Bolduc. He said the chickens and other farm products would be sold at the proposed farmstand.

The board scheduled a site walk and public hearing for Tuesday, June 17, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Bolduc property.