Planning commission recommends approval for 10-minute Strickland Brothers oil-change at 185 E. Roosevelt Road

The planning commission on Oct. 7 recommended approval of a special-use permit for a 1,747-square-foot, 10-minute oil-change facility known in the application as Strickland Brothers at 185 E. Roosevelt Road.

Planning staff summarized the request as a petition from Maiden Real Estate Holdings LLC, represented in the staff report by “Tim Hayden,” and recommended the commission approve the special-use permit with the conditions and the findings of fact included in the staff report. The site is a vacant outlot in the B-2 General Business District in front of the Jewel grocery store; staff said the proposed building would be accessed from a shared internal drive rather than directly from Roosevelt Road and would provide eight parking stalls and landscaping.

Tibby Hayden, who identified himself as a real estate program developer and spoke for the project team, said the operator would be a Strickland Brothers franchisee and described ownership and lease plans. Hayden said the building would be finished with James Hardie siding, CMU and EIFS, that the operator uses pit-style service bays that collect and store used oil in holding tanks, and that hours would generally run through community hours (roughly morning to evening). He said the business model keeps customers in their cars and that the petitioner has coordinated grading and a small retaining wall to address site elevation differences with neighboring properties.

Commissioners asked about traffic flow and proximity to other oil-change businesses. Hayden said vehicle queuing would occur off the internal drive (not directly on Roosevelt Road), employees would park on the north side of the lot, and that the operator’s oil-collection systems would prevent on-site disposal problems.

After the public hearing was closed the commission moved to recommend approval of the special-use permit “with the conditions recommended by staff and to incorporate the findings of fact drafted by staff.” A roll-call vote recorded five ayes and zero nos. Staff said the recommendation will be forwarded to city council and is scheduled for the council meeting on Monday, Oct. 20, where it is expected to appear on the consent agenda.

The commission also noted procedural next steps for permits (building-permit review, stormwater and utilities reviews) and advised the petitioner to coordinate with the permit technician, Jackie Stern, for follow-up.