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Boerne planning panel recommends denying Goodwill thrift store special-use permit
Summary
The Boerne Planning and Zoning Commission voted 6-1 to recommend the City Council deny a special use permit for a proposed 16,570-square-foot Goodwill thrift store at 1030 North Main Street after public testimony citing donation dilution, visual impacts at the city's entrance corridor, parking and off-hours donation dumping.
Boerne Planning and Zoning Commission — On July [date not specified], the Boerne Planning and Zoning Commission voted 6-1 to recommend the City Council deny a special use permit requested by Goodwill Industries to operate a 16,570-square-foot thrift store at 1030 North Main Street in the Live Oak Shopping Center.
The commission's discussion followed a staff presentation that described the site as a vacant tenant space in a C-2 (transitional commercial) zone within the city's entrance corridor overlay district and said the proposed use otherwise met Unified Development Code criteria. Staff recommended approval with three stipulations: conformity to the submitted narrative and floor plan; the SUP would expire if no physical improvements and a certificate of occupancy occurred within two years; and no outdoor donation bins or outdoor storage or congregating would be permitted on site.
Public testimony opposing the application came almost entirely from local nonprofit leaders, thrift-shop operators and nearby residents. Speakers…
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