The Smithtown Town Board has approved a site plan for a McDonald's on Crooked Hill Road in Commack after the chain closed a nearby location last month.

Meanwhile, town officials and representatives of another popular restaurant chain — Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers — appear to contradict each other on whether it will open a restaurant at the site of the closed McDonald's on Motor Parkway.

The town board voted 5-0 at its regular meeting Thursday to approve the site plan for the McDonald’s. That plan calls for a 4,130-square-foot, one-story building to be constructed in Commack’s zoning district, according to submissions to the town from Bohler Engineering PLLC .

McDonald's closed the Motor Parkway location last month, according to town planning department officials. The proposed McD

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