Public hearing set for proposed Stockport Dollar General

If approved, the store would be built on a 4.2 acre piece of land on Route 9 and Crown Court in Stockport, and would include parking, landscaping, utilities, lighting, and storm-water management, according to the project’s environmental assessment form.

The Dollar General location would use town water and be required to construct a septic tank on the property.

The project was brought before the board earlier in the year, but the applicants were asked to make changes, Planning Board Chairman Dan McCormack said.

“They added the modifications that we asked for, but the board still hasn’t completed their reviews,” he said. “They will be by the time the meeting takes place.”

According to renderings submitted to the board, the store would be a Dollar General Market.

Dollar General Markets sell produce, refrigerated and frozen food, and fresh meat, along with the other general items sold at regular Dollar General locations, according to the company.

There are two Dollar General stores within a 20-mile radius of Stockport, including one on Fairview Avenue in Hudson, and the other on Route 9G in Germantown, as well as a store across the river in Athens.

The proposed location of the store is also home to an endangered species of bat, according to the project’s environmental assessment form.

The Indiana bat was listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Its numbers have declined by half since it was listed, and fell 19% since 2007, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Threats to the bat include human disturbance when hibernating, loss of summer habitat, as well as pesticides and other contaminants, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Community feedback at the public hearing might be negative, McCormack said.

“People are not happy,” he said. “I have a feeling a lot of the people that are not happy are going to be there and voice their displeasure.”