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Zoning commission approves automated car wash on West Blanco with restrictions

3203228 · May 6, 2025
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Summary

The San Antonio Zoning Commission approved a rezoning and specific-use authorization to redevelop a vacant Pizza Hut site at 17539 Blanco Road as an automated car wash, adding conditions including a Type C buffer, restricted hours and bans on amplified sound and temporary signage.

The San Antonio Zoning Commission on May 6 approved a request to rezone 17539 Blanco Road to allow an automated tunnel car wash and related site improvements, with conditions intended to limit impacts on nearby homes.

Planning staff and the San Antonio Water System recommended approval, citing the site’s location in a commercial corridor and environmental benefits of the operator’s nearly closed-loop water-recycling system.

Applicant attorney James Griffin told the commission the proposal downsizes the site from C-3 to C-2 and limits uses allowed there, and that the car wash would be a…

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