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New restaurant in the works in BaileyBy Corey FriedmanTimes Online EditorBAILEY — Town commissioners on Monday rolled out the welcome mat for The Leaning Tree, a restaurant in the works at6168 Deans St.The Board of Commissioners voted unanimouslyto approve a special-use permit for the property on recommendation of the Bailey Planning Board. Town Clerk Becky Smith said permit applicants, Richard and Mary Wilson, were previously licensed to run a catering business at the Deans Street site.Commissioners approved the permit on the condition that the restaurant will not have off-street parking on the north end of Nash Street or on Deans Street. Patrons can park in marked spaces downtown and Southern Bank has given the restaurant permission to use its parking lot after business hours.Smith said she didn’t know when the Wilsons planned to open their restaurant for business. The special-use permit is good for one year from the start of operation, but the permit only remains valid if the restaurant opens within 6 months of the town board’s approval.Commissioners also voted Monday to apply for a state grant in order to study a proposed regional sewer system for the towns of Bailey and Middlesex.A state moratorium on new sewer lines set in2003 has hobbled Bailey’s growth. A new system with a wastewater treatment plant in Bailey would help town leaders get the ban lifted, commissioners said.“What it’s supposed to do is move us toward getting off the moratorium and get us some additional capacity,” Mayor Tim Johnsonexplained.Bailey will apply for a $50,000 technical assistance grant from the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources. The grant money would be used for a feasibility study on theproposed Bailey-Middlesex sewer system.“1 think we’ve got no choice,” Commissioner Rocky Winstead said. “We’ve got to move, and we’ve got to do anything we can.”If state officials award the grant, Bailey is obligated only to proceed with the study. The vote represented an initial step toward aregional sewer system that would not require the town to build it.Commissioners voted unanimously to require vaults for all grave sites at the Bailey Cemetery. They said rain recently seeped into a casket buried without a vault. Caskets are placed inside the vaults.“We do have a couple of funeral homes locally that do not require a vault,” Commissioner Shelley Carroll said.The board decided Monday to require vaults for all future burials.Bailey leaders pdopted a procedural resolutionthat designates Southern Bank as the town’s financial institution. The mayor explained that Heritage Bank’s 2013 merger with Southern and the resulting name change required an updated authorization from the town.“I found out that if the bank changes names or is bought, you have to adopt a resolution so the town clerk can legally put money into that new bank,” Johnson said.The Bailey Board of Commissioners scheduled its next meeting for 7 p.m. April 21 at town hall.corty@wilsontmies.com | 265-7821:#te
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