Four Square Restaurant to Feature DJ, Live Music

An epic parking saga, a state senator gets his music and taxi cabs receive a thumbs up.

It was all part of a brief meeting Tuesday afternon of the Board of License Commissioners. State Sen. Robert Hedlund, R-Weymouth, received permission to use a DJ or other entertainment Mondays through Saturdays from 4 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. at his new restaurant Four Square in Braintree-Weymouth Landing.

"We submitted the application in the hopes of having that option," Hedlund said, and will not necessarily host performers every night.

The approval came with the requirement that the planning department sort out whether Four Square requires a special "place of assembly" permit, despite the fact that there is limited space outside of tables and the bar area.

"I was going to have them dance on the bar and the tables," Hedlund joked. "Just kidding."

Members also went back and forth with representatives of at 365 Quincy Ave. over a parking issue that came to a head . At the time, One Stop Auto was part of what Town Clerk and board chair Joe Powers called a "standard, annual process" of approving licenses for businesses like repair shops, gas stations and liquor stores.

The following week, on Dec. 21, of its license and told its owners that if they wanted to store more vehicles they had to come up with an appropriate parking plan. Through attorney Thomas J. Cavanaugh, the shop said on Tuesday that it would trim its request from a total of 34 spaces to 31 (up from 19) based on feedback from the fire and building departments.

But members held off on approval because the planning department requested a calculation of the square footage inside of the facility to produce a number of required spaces for the sales side and the repair side. March 8 is the next meeting for that and other purposes, though the board will convene on March 1 to discuss Dave & Busters.

In other business, all taxi companies in Braintree, contingent on proper paperwork being submitted, had their licenses renewed. also received a one-day special wine and malt license for a March 6 event, and Kobe Japanese Steakhouse, scheduled to open in early March at the , was able to change its name to Tokyo Japanese Steakhouse because another company in Florida had trademarked the previous title.