At its meeting on Wednesday, June 4, the Milan Planning Board approved an expansion plan for Down the Road Butchery, granted a subdivision for a Sawmill Road property, and set a public hearing for a proposed subdivision on Shookville Road.
The butchery processes meat from game such as deer and wild turkey. By expanding the workspace into the parking lot off Battenfeld Road, it will add storage room and provide a safer driveway for customers dropping off game or picking up meat. The plan will also add an office space and a walk-in freezer upstairs while giving the employees more standing space in the butchering area downstairs.
“For the local hunters, that’s their source of feeding their families,” said Down the Road owner Greg Hangac. “We try to do as much as we can in that season in a really small, tight place.”
The board approved the subdivision of a 23.1-acre lot on Sawmill Road owned by Stephen Schreiber, who created the 31-foot Fork in the Road sculpture at the intersection of Routes 199 and 308.
At the Planning Board’s next meeting, on July 2, residents and neighbors can offer their views about another proposed subdivision at 15 Shookville Road, which is owned by financial advisor Jon Russell Crafton. He has owned the property since 2011 and aims to list 17.7 acres of the 89.3-acre lot for sale.