Pending a state driveway permit, Dollar General has the green light for building a 7,500 square foot store on King Street in Boscawen.

The Boscawen Planning Board issued a conditional approval for the site plan last week. Town co-administrator and code enforcement officer Alan Hardy, who is the appointed compliance officer for the project, said Dollar General should move forward once the New Hampshire Department of Transportation permit comes through.

“Normally nobody will start the process of acquiring the property and starting to build until everything is in place and approval is final,” Hardy said.

The planning board’s approval was also contingent on several items being added into Dollar General’s site plan. They include, though are not limited to: side lot privacy fencing options for abutters; merchandise sales limited to inside the store; and mandating that deliveries “shall” be made between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m.

In addition, the planning board decided to have Underwood Engineering supervise the site work and utility connections, which, under state law, must be paid for by Dollar General.

“That proposal was $6,000,” Hardy said.

Minutes from the planning board meeting that led to the project’s unanimous conditional approval indicated that questions persist even 11 months after Bohler Engineering first submitted materials on behalf of Dollar General last May.

Bruce Crawford, the planning board chair who recused himself from proceedings due to being a direct abutter to the project, made a point of order on April 4 and argued that the public hearing should be reopened given that Dollar General provided new information since the last public hearing in January.

The planning board ultimately dismissed this point of order, noting that the most recent Dollar General site plan application was filed in January, meaning the statutory 65-day mark in which a decision must be rendered had already passed.

The meeting minutes also indicated the board still had concerns about trucks pulling into the driveway without hopping two curbs – and would they refrain from parking along Route 3?

Austin Turner of Bohler Engineering said the trucks won’t be allowed to, “but… he can’t say they won’t.”

Hardy said this is an issue not limited to Dollar General. He noted several trucks were parked along Route 3 and unloading as he spoke Thursday.

“Unfortunately that happens every day,” he said. “Most times the perfect driver doesn’t exist. But it will come down to the responsibility of the company once they take over the building. We may need to remind a particular driver, a particular manager, that that amount of time out on the highway, on the road, needs to be respected.”

Before it gets to that, however, Dollar General must be constructed. Hardy said he expected to receive building plans soon.

Once open, the store will operate between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. seven days a week.