The Aurora City Council is set to vote on a more modern gas station where an old one once stood on the near northeast side of the city.
Aldermen put on next week’s City Council meeting’s consent agenda a conditional use for a 5,100-square-foot building on .75 acres on the southeast corner of Indian Trail and Route 25.
The development would include a gas station and a restaurant with about 25 seats and a drive-thru window. According to developers, the restaurant would be the 17th location for Cilantro Taco Grill, and the gas station tenant is yet to be determined.
The property for years was home to a Mobil gas station which stood vacant for a while before being torn down in 2018. This new development would include a new lot that was next door to the old gas station and once contained a house.
One of the developers of the property told aldermen at this week’s Committee of the Whole meeting that the previous gas station owner – who still is a partner in the current venture – gutted the old building on the property and even removed the gas tanks that were there.
The property has been vacant since then, and will be replaced with a “state-of-the-art” gas station that includes an EV charging station, a restaurant, and a newer, larger building that would include a small market.
“In the last 15 years, the entire gas station has changed,” the developer said. “A stand-alone gas station does not survive. You have to have food service.”
Because it is on additional land, the developers would get rid of the four access points, two on both Route 25 and Indian Trail, and replace them with two access points, one each on both roads.
Each access would be further away from the intersection, which is busy and carries a lot of traffic, officials said.
Developers also would add sidewalks to the property, which was not on the original plan, because no neighboring properties have sidewalks.
But aldermen requested the sidewalks in case future development of the other nearby properties might add sidewalks.
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