Developer wants to build new tire shop in city

A new tire shop was proposed last Wednesday at the city’s Project Review Committee Meeting to be located in a new facility at 747 N. Sunnyside St.

The city’s PRC provides developers and applicants with a preliminary meeting to evaluate proposed projects. The PRC consists of the zoning administrator, city planner, city engineer, chief building official and fire chief or their designees.

Project applicant Sunny Basra and agent Mark Hillman want the proposed new facility to be constructed in a lot that is currently vacant, said Julie Phillips, the city’s community development manager.

“It is going to be a prefabricated building,” Phillips said.

Phillips added that there are no major issues with the proposed project as it is consistent with the area’s existing zoning — General and Service Commercial Zone District.

“It fits OK on the property,” Phillips said, adding that another PRC meeting for the project may not be necessary. “They [Basra and Hillman] may be ready to submit for building permits as long as in the building permit submittal they are able to make sure that the questions that we had are properly responded to.”

As far as when, or if, the project will start construction, Phillips said it all depends on how Basra and Hillman want to move forward.

“We are headed into the holiday season and right after that it is the rainy season so it is really going to depend on them and their contractor and their designer too because

their designer is going to be the one that is going to need to complete the building permit submittal package,” Phillips said.

Although still in the beginning stages of the process, Phillips said Basra and Hillman plan to have the proposed 4,160 square foot tire shop service four vehicles simultaneously.

The PRC also discussed at its meeting a proposal from Don Vino’s Italian Bar and Grill to enclose approximately 3,800 square feet of its existing outdoor dining area at 247 N. Main St.

Phillips said there are certain regulations at the state level when enclosing an existing building

and state laws on how it needs to be done. As far as local ordinances go, Phillips said Don Vino’s is allowed, in the downtown area, to have that much of its lot enclosed.

Phillips noted, however, that the Madrigal family, the applicant for the proposed project, and their agent, Hillman, will

have to notify the city of how the new portion of the building will look like. Such information, Phillips said, will help to determine whether or not if it is going to be a major change to their Conditional Use Permit or a minor change.

“It may need to go back to [city] council or it may

not,” Phillips said. “It depends on the additional information they give us.”

In terms of a timeline, Phillips said it is all in the applicant’s hands now.

“Once they get that information back to us we will be able to figure out which way it goes from there,” Phillips said.