Carmen Henriquez reports for The Columbia Paper that on Jan. 29 a judge overturned the Germantown Planning Board's approval of a Dollar General store on Route 9G. Acting Supreme Court Justice Henry F. Zwack vacated the town Planning Board’s approval, sending the store's site plan before the town Zoning Board of Appeals, which will decide if the project complies with town zoning laws. Justice Zwack wrote: “The Planning Board had no authority to interpret the Town’s Zoning Law – which could only be done by the Zoning Board of Appeals.” The Article 78 lawsuit was originally brought by seven Germantown residents: Carol Neville, Karen Targrove, Angela Olszewski, Douglas Trapp, William Kimmel, Arthur Cady, and Elizabeth Cawley. Many of those petitioners were removed from the case, but Neville and Cady own property next to the proposed store, and were allowed to proceed. Primax Properties wants to put the 134-feet deep and 71-feet wide store on a 1.3-acre lot that is in Germantown’s Hamlet Commercial Zone, and the town’s Scenic Viewshed Overlay District. Read the full story in The Columbia Paper.