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Artist and small-scale winemaker seeks to locate bottling facility and gallery in former fire station; commission advises code amendment or conditional-use path
Summary
An applicant proposing a small wine bottling operation combined with an art gallery at 10 South Main presented concept plans; staff said current zoning and code definitions treat bottling as manufacturing and a code amendment or conditional-use permit will be required before the applicant can proceed.
Paul Hunt and artist Stephanie presented a proposal to convert the former fire station at 10 South Main into a combined art gallery, community art space and a very small wine bottling operation. Hunt said his operation would be limited to bottling wine purchased already fermented offsite and that production would be small scale — "probably no more than 5 or 10 of these barrels in any given year," he said, referring to 60-gallon barrels.
Hunt described the proposed layout: gallery and retail/art class space in the former fire-station building; a small bottling line and stainless-steel tank in a secondary garage structure; and storage in a refrigerated room. He said bottling/storage activities would occur only a handful of…
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