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Plan Commission reviews Toby’s Auto site expansion, directs staff to draft conditional auto‑sales language

3578218 · May 28, 2025
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Summary

The Cottage Grove Plan Commission reviewed a site plan for a 600 sq ft addition and expanded parking at Toby’s Auto (221 Bonney Road) and asked staff to draft zoning language to allow accessory auto sales in the older industrial district; no final zoning change was adopted at the meeting.

The Cottage Grove Plan Commission on the evening considered a site plan amendment for Toby’s Auto at 221 Bonney Road that would add a 600‑square‑foot addition and expand parking, and directed staff to draft zoning language to allow limited auto sales as an accessory use in the village’s older industrial district.

Planning consultant Lee Madden, representing owner Giovanni Ortega, told the commission: "They have a facility at 221 Bonney Road, and they've been operating, in that facility with, a body shop, repairing vehicles primarily for their own, resale." Madden said the proposal before the commission is for "a 20 by 30 addition, which would become employee break area and sales counter," plus repaving, landscaping, lighting, signage and a…

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