Oak Creek council approves Kunis Buick permit change, green-lights 2026 road-bid package and updates stormwater fee code

The Oak Creek Common Council on Oct. 21 approved three separate measures: an amendment to a conditional use permit for the Kunis Buick GMC dealership, authorization to advertise and bid the city’s 2026 road-rehabilitation projects, and an ordinance updating how the city classifies customers for the stormwater user charge.

The conditional-use amendment removes a carryover requirement that the dealership dedicate and construct a portion of a future frontage/access road on its property. Christie Lane, community development director, told the council the condition dated to approvals in 2018 and 2022 and had tied construction to state matching funds that are no longer available. Lane said the dealership had requested that the council grant the exception authorized under section 14.18 of the municipal code so the required construction would no longer be imposed on the current property owner.

Supporters on the Planning Commission recommended the amendment. At the council meeting attorney Emil Ovia Galay, representing an adjoining property owner, said his client, Rakesh Rehan, had repeatedly attempted to develop the neighboring lot and that removing the condition could make that parcel effectively landlocked. Galay told the council he and his client had searched for a previously referenced memorandum of understanding and that the city attorney’s position was that the referenced document did not exist; he asked the council to consider options to preserve reasonable development opportunities for…