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Plan Commission recommends Common Council approve Buc‑ee’s fueling plaza and related lot map with conditions
Summary
The Plan Commission on April 22 recommended that the Common Council approve a conditional use permit for a Buc‑ee’s travel center and a certified survey map to create two lots and an outlot at 10700–10840 S. 20th Street, subject to conditions including DOT review of required access improvements and recorded cross‑access and utility easements.
The Oak Creek Plan Commission on April 22 voted to recommend that the Common Council approve a conditional use permit for a Buc‑ee’s travel center and to approve a certified survey map (CSM) that would create two buildable lots and an outlot for stormwater management on parcels at 10700, 10820 and 10840 S. 20th Street.
City planning staff told the commission the applicant is proposing a travel‑center development anchored by an approximately 74,000‑square‑foot retail building with two canopy structures serving about 20 fueling positions. Staff said the conceptual site plan shows roughly 680 parking spaces (the code calculation requires about 414) and that applicants estimate roughly 10,000 vehicles per day to the site, with about 90 percent of customers coming from the interstate and re‑entering the highway. Staff also noted that semi‑trucks would be prohibited from using the site and that the applicants have submitted a draft traffic‑impact analysis to the Wisconsin DOT, which has jurisdiction over the nearby interstate interchange.
Stan Beard, director of development and real estate for Buc‑ee’s, said he was available to answer commissioners’ questions. City staff listed the fueling plaza standards in the municipal code and identified standard conditions and restrictions for conditional uses. Those include setback and canopy lighting requirements, masonry bases for canopy columns, and limits on canopy and pylon signage. The applicant requested 24‑hour operations and specific sign allowances (a 70–75 foot pylon sign with a masonry base, up to 307 square feet of total wall signage, 64 square feet for canopy logo signs and additional smaller signs); staff said signage will be addressed in the conditions and restrictions and in later site and architectural review.
The plan commission’s recommendation for the conditional use permit included that DOT approval of required access and capacity improvements is necessary; staff said without DOT sign‑off the project cannot proceed. Staff also said that site landscaping, architecture, lighting, stormwater design (subject to Chapter 13 and MMSD rules and Wisconsin DNR standards) and wetlands/dispensing regulations would be reviewed at a later site plan/ architectural review stage before permits are issued.
On the CSM, staff explained that Lot 1 (intended for the Buc‑ee’s use) and Lot 2 (a future development parcel) plus an outlot for stormwater would meet B‑6 district frontage and size requirements. The commission recommended approval of the CSM with standard technical corrections and with conditions requiring recorded cross‑access easements between the lots, cross‑access and maintenance easements for the outlot, a 25‑foot water main easement, a sanitary sewer easement and evidence of transfer of ownership prior to permit issuance.
The commission voted in favor of the conditional use permit recommendation and the CSM recommendation by roll call. Both matters will go to the Common Council for public hearing and final action; staff said a public hearing could be scheduled as early as May 20.
