Article: FLYING J TOLD NO WAY BY TOWN; SALINA PLANNING BOARD REJECTS COMPANY'S PROPOSAL FOR A TRAVEL PLAZA ON ROUTE 57.(Local)

Byline: Pam Greene Staff writer

The Flying J truck stop chain cannot build a 14,076-square-foot travel plaza in Salina. The town's planning board denied the company's request Thursday.

In 1999, the truck stop chain asked Salina if it could build the plaza on Route 57, at the Liverpool bypass, near residential neighborhoods. After three years of controversy and thousands of petitions from angry residents who live near the site, the planning board unanimously rejected the request.

After planning board Chairman Nicholas Grillo read the motion to deny the request and as each planning board member supported the motion, a crowd of more than 125 ...

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