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Board members did raise questions about the slope of the driveway and the lack of windows in the concept design, to which Fishel cautioned it was just a base design for the sake of pricing out construction – the board stressed that the finalized building design needed windows. Generally speaking, the Dryden Planning Board was favorable to the concept plan.

The “Plantations” driveway sign would be restored but moved over to the adjacent lawn area – this will require a sign variance from the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals. The parking area would be gravel with 28 spaces, with LED lighting, a paved handicap parking area and driveway apron at the entrance to Dryden Road. The building will use burgundy vinyl siding (the color chosen to be similar to the building that burned down), with 60 seats on the deck and 81 inside. The design is not final and is expected to be more refined prior to construction. Local architect Claudia Brenner has been tasked with design work, creating a relatively unadorned one-story gabled structure. For comparison, the former restaurant hosted about 2,000 square-feet of indoor space and a 1,000 square-foot deck, so the new building would be a little larger. The new building would host a 2,600 square-foot restaurant with a 1,000 square-foot deck.

Project engineer Adam Fishel of Marathon Engineering presented the plans with Plantations owner Danielle Maguire at his side. The Dryden Planning Board got a preview of those plans at its meeting last week. But, like the proverbial phoenix rising from the ashes, the restaurant seeks a rebirth at its old location on Dryden Road.