Craig Mengeling can use an historic farmhouse to prepare food for his food wagons, but can't store the wagons on the property. At least not yet.
An historic farmhouse at the corner of Morgan and Forest Home avenues will only house a food preparation kitchen and serve as living quarters for a local businessman. But Craig Mengeling is holding out hope that’s just temporary. The Common Council voted Tuesday, 4-1, to approve Mengeling’s special use requests to use the farmhouse to prepare food for his food wagons. He and his wife can also live in the house, and run an antique and refurbishing shop at the location as well. But Mengeling cannot store either of his two food wagons on the property. The city and some neighbors were concerned about how the wagons would look on the property. “We do anticipate coming back to you and asking for sufficient screening permit to allow the trailer …
Craig Mengeling tweaked his original proposal to open a food catering business at a historic farmhouse and will return to the city's Planning Commission next week.
The idea of food wagons circling Greenfield, or at least parking and occasionally setting up shop at a historic farmhouse, isn't dead yet. Craig Mengeling's newest proposal to turn the farmhouse at 5225 W. Forest Home Ave. into a catering office and auxiliary kitchen for his food wagons now includes revisions and a scaled-back version of what he originally suggested he wanted to do at the location. Last month, the Common Council took no action on Mengeling's proposal mostly because there were too many concerns and unanswered questions, including those about parking and the aesthetic appeal of the wagons parked on the property. Mengeling told Greenfield NOW one of the wagons he planned on storing on the site would now be stored on a farm in…
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Lee
11:07 am on Saturday, October 20, 2012
I thought food prep kitchens had to be commercial in nature and certified? I know of a few home kitchens I would be afraid to eat from. Am I missing something here? more ›