Ashwaubenon committee approves Mister Car Wash site plan with noise and construction conditions

The Village of Ashwaubenon Site Plan Review Committee on May 6 approved a site plan for Mister Car Wash at 2314 S. Oneida St., a project that will demolish the existing restaurant building and construct a roughly 4,800-square-foot tunnel car wash with accessory vacuum bays.

Planning staff told the committee the property is zoned B3 Community Business, the car wash is a permitted use, and the plan meets dimensional and minimum green-space requirements. Staff recommended approval with conditions including concealed fasteners for architectural metal panels; limits on exterior insulated finish system (EFIS) to no more than 30% of cumulative wall area (and no single wall more than 40%); screening of rooftop and ground-mounted mechanicals visible from public rights-of-way; and submission of revised engineering plans. Engineering also required a Brown County Highway permit for driveway widening, a 6-inch-thick concrete driveway apron and sidewalk, and coordination of curb profiling and traffic control with Brown County and the Village.

Committee members raised questions about winter “drip” and icing near Oneida Street, and about vacuum and dryer noise for a residence being built immediately behind the site. Rodney Robinson, identifying his office in Madison, described operational practices used at other regional Mister Car Wash locations: water drains into conveyor trenches, on-site crews salt and maintain areas in winter, some sites use heated exit pads, and vacuum/blower equipment can be fitted with silencers or installed inside structures. “We are very much on top of that,” Robinson told the committee.

Planning staff noted the submitted site plan indicates a heated concrete pad at the exit for this location and that vacuum equipment options include interior installation or exterior units fitted with silencers. The committee emphasized that the applicant must meet the village noise ordinance; if decibel limits are exceeded, the village can require mitigation, and the applicant said it would work with staff to reduce noise where feasible.

Other technical items noted in staff comments include 15 parking spaces and 18 vehicle stacking spaces (exceeding the minimum), masonry and metal panel exterior materials, coordination with building inspection for utility connections, removal of detectable warning strips from the sidewalk where noted, and a favorable forestry review of the landscape plan.

After discussion a motion to approve the site plan with the recommended conditions passed on a voice vote with one abstention from committee member Dan Pamperin.

The approval is conditioned on the engineering and architectural notes presented to the committee and the applicant’s compliance with Village of Ashwaubenon codes and applicable Brown County permits.