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Developer presents gas station and convenience store plan for Gary Ave. corner; trustees press diesel, truck and safety issues
Summary
Rossman Partners presented an 8,500‑sq‑ft convenience store with fuel sales and a diesel canopy at Gary Avenue and Lees Road; trustees and residents raised truck‑parking, diesel canopy placement, lighting at town‑center concerts and enforcement concerns. No board action was taken; the item was a courtesy review.
Ross Brown of Rossman Partners presented a courtesy review to the Carol Stream Village Board for a proposed 8,500‑square‑foot convenience store with fuel sales and a drive‑through end cap at 160 E. Lees Road, the southeast corner of Gary Avenue and Lees Road. Brown said the developable portion is about 5.14 acres within a roughly 15‑acre parcel that is otherwise largely wetland, and described two proposed retention ponds, landscaping buffers and a photometric lighting plan to limit spillover into the adjacent town‑center event area.
The project would include a separate diesel canopy with two fueling positions sized to accommodate semis and two additional fueling positions for smaller trucks, a liquor‑store component and a small drive‑through restaurant end cap Brown said would likely…
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