VASSALBORO — A move to put a self-storage company where the Grand View topless coffee shop once stood is moving forward, the Planning Board was told Tuesday night.

A permit was approved in October for David Coulombe to create self-storage units on the Route 3 property that once housed Donald Crabtree’s topless coffee shop, which burned last year. The coffee shop, housed in a temporary building, finally closed over the summer.

Coulombe has closed on the property and paid the back taxes, Code Enforcement Officer Daniel Feeney told the board Tuesday.

Coulombe, who already operates a self-storage business in Chelsea, said there is a lot of work to do to convert the building on Route 3. He hopes to open by the beginning of the year.

Also Tuesday, action on an application for a catering company and cooking school at the Parsonage House, 276 Dunham Road, was delayed because of missing information.

The board said maps related to Michael and Lorilee Dumont’s plan were confusing and information was missing from their application.

One major issue was whether proposed parking in front of the building would be in the road right-of-way.

After an hour’s discussion, board Chairman Virginia Bracket invited a motion to postpone a decision.

“We’re making up a map as we go along, and you don’t have a narrative, so I’m uncomfortable going forward with this. I don’t think the application is complete, and I don’t think we can act on it,” Brackett said.

If the Dumonts complete the town’s application form and clarify where they intend to have patron parking, they will probably be on the agenda for the board’s Dec. 6 meeting.

Their plans for the property include a catering kitchen where meals will be prepared to be sent out; an evening cooking school; providing a venue and food for small parties without liquor; serving reservation-only meals for up to 30 people one evening a week; and eventually adding a small bed and breakfast business.

In other action Tuesday:

* Also delayed was an application by Leo Barnett, who wanted to add four lots to his Old Meadow Road subdivision off Riverside Drive. The board said his application was incomplete and gave him instructions on how to complete it.

Brian Kent of Maine Farmlands LLC, which owns the former Sturgis property abutting Barnett on the south, said the company’s surveyor believes one of the rock piles that marks the Sturgis boundaries is well inside what Barnett thinks is his boundary.

While the boundary question is not in the Planning Board’s jurisdiction, Feeney said, it needs to be resolved before the board can act.

* Alex Murphy received a permit to continue making wooden dogsleds at his home on Whitehouse Road, and Richard Bradstreet, to change a lot line in Sherwood Forest subdivision off Riverside Drive.

Mary Grow is a Kennebec Journal correspondent who lives in China.