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Lions Club tells Stow zoning board it seeks temporary food‑truck use and will return proceeds to charity
Summary
Lions Club representatives told the zoning board the club signed an MOU with a food‑truck operator that would pay $400 a month to the club; the club described the truck as a temporary, not permanent, use and cited decades of event history at the field as support for relief.
Lions Club representatives told the Stow Zoning Board they are seeking permission to host a food truck at the club field and emphasized the charitable purpose of revenue generated.
Nick Besseldes, identified by the applicant as the club’s president, told the board the organization has existed locally since the 1960s and uses proceeds to fund scholarships and services for the blind. Applicant representatives said the club signed a memorandum of understanding with the operator, under which the operator would provide $400 per month to the club’s charitable budget. Speaker 7 described the truck’s presence as temporary and said it is not a permanent structure.
The club said the building commissioner sent a cease‑and‑desist on April 30 after the truck began operating and that the club filed an appeal on June 4. The applicant stated an approximate recent usage metric—"somewhere in the order of 88 hours out of 168" in a typical week across the past three months—as an illustration of the truck’s intermittent presence. The club offered to provide additional documentation of prior events and historical use to support claims of a nonconforming or preexisting use.
Board members pressed the applicant for documentary proof of prior continuous or recurring use and asked for a clearer schedule and parking plan before the board can render a determination on any permit or variance request.
