FARMINGTON – The Board of Appeals is scheduled to meet Wednesday to review a Rite Aid developer’s application for a variance for the store’s sign.

The meeting is scheduled at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 15, downstairs at the municipal building.

Initially, the board was also scheduled to review developer Farmra LLC’s request for a variance of the lot coverage requirement of the Shoreland Zone Overlay District of the town’s Shoreland Zoning Ordinance.

Rite Aid plans to build a new store on lower Main Street where the Farmington Diner, former Quizno’s and a C.N. Brown service station are located.

Town Code Enforcement Officer Steve Kaiser said he spoke with a state shoreland zoning administrator Monday and went and re-measured the lot, which is three lots combined, and the lot will have a little more vegetated area than it does now, Kaiser said.

The existing non-vegetated area, which includes buildings, is 88.2 percent, Kaiser said. Under the plan, the new non-vegetated area would be 87.9 percent.

The state administrator considered the lot grandfathered, Kaiser said. He wishes he had picked up on it sooner, Kaiser said, but he’s been so busy that he hasn’t had time and decided to make the call Monday in preparation for Wednesday’s meeting.

The company also wants a variance to use more sign area than the town’s sign ordinance allows, he said.

Developers are requesting the sign area to be 193.7 square feet, he said. The maximum is 100 square feet under the ordinance. They want to put a double-sided free-standing sign, which 69.9 square feet per side or 139.8 square feet combined, and signs on the building that equal 53.9 square feet, he said.

The ordinance requires both sides of the free-standing sign to be counted, he said.

Gifford’s Ice Cream received a variance on its sign on lower Main Street years ago for its 164 square feet of signage, which exceeds the maximum area under the ordinance, Kaiser said.