HADLEY — Maple Valley Creamery will have the ability to have dwell performers all through the season on the Scoops on the Silos ice cream stand, however uncertainty stays about whether or not a meals truck might be allowed to return regularly to the 100 Mill Valley Road website.

The Select Board not too long ago granted an leisure license for the farm, so it will possibly host occasions from 11:30 a.m. to eight:30 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through the heat climate months. That approval adopted a constructive advice from the Planning Board, which accomplished an utility evaluation, analyzing the parking state of affairs on the website and figuring out there was sufficient house for 60 autos.

The farm, although, could have to attend till after annual Town Meeting subsequent month to deliver again El Durango Taco Truck. Voters are anticipated to contemplate a revised bylaw governing the operation of meals vehicles.

That doable delay comes despite the fact that Bruce Jenks, the farmer who oversees the Maple Valley enterprise, stated the meals truck was on website final 12 months, and was inspected by well being officers and the Fire Department, and supplied meals to complement the ice cream. There had been no complaints and solely reward for the genuine Mexican delicacies, Jenks stated.

“This is the first year the town has decided to address the trucks,” Jenks stated. “We have been a good farm and business for the town and the surrounding communities.”

In addition, he factors to the same operation of the Creamy Delights ice cream stand on Lawrence Plain Road. That enterprise has operated from a parked cell automobile for about 20 years.

Currently, meals vehicles are given licenses for particular public occasions, such because the annual Asparagus Festival, and for personal features, sometimes for single days or weekends.

The further evaluation his leisure license was subjected to was triggered resulting from not being in a business zone. That meant supplementing the standard constructing, hearth and police inspection with a Planning Board evaluation, stated Jennifer Sanders James, the city’s licensing coordinator.

“That’s where it has to have a Select Board decision on the zone,” Sanders James stated.

Another concern was that the farmland is within the state’s Agricultural Preservation Restriction program, and state officers may object to having the enterprise exercise on the protected land.

John McLaughlin, an lawyer with Green Miles Lipton representing Jenks, stated written approval was given by the commissioner of the APR program.

“It’s good for the farm. It’s good for the community,” McLaughlin stated.

Scott Merzbach might be reached at smerzbach@gazettenet.com.