TOPSHAM

The Planning Board will hold a public hearing tonight on a proposed parking lot expansion to make way for a used-car lot.

Dale Crafts of Crafts Self Storage Inc., 7 Center Park Road, has submitted site-plan and conditional-use applications proposing expansion of an unlined parking lot to display cars for sale.

Town Planner Rich Roedner said the proposal involves paving an area that could handle 50 or 60 vehicles.

The Planning Board also will consider a site-plan amendment submitted by Priority Group LLC to amend lighting at Rusty’s Middlesex Market, 38 Middlesex Road.

Construction on the building is nearing completion. Roedner said the store, which will feature fuel pumps, is in a residential district where code does not allow internally-illuminated signs.

Shell wants the canopy signs over the pumps to be internally illuminated.

The Planning Board will also consider amending a condition of the board’s 2001 approval of the subdivision plan for Smith Farm Condominium.

Tom Delois of Smith Farm Condominium is requesting a five-year extension to complete the project.

Roedner said as part of the original approval, the board included a condition that the project be completed in five years, which is not a standard condition of approval.

It was discovered the five years expired a couple years ago, Roedner said. There are four duplex-style units still slated for construction on Hannah Drive.

After the regular meeting the board is scheduled to hold a workshop on the sign ordinance.