Council extends 90‑day moratorium on certain social‑service and gas‑station permits after developer appeals for exception

Troy City Council on April 20 adopted an emergency 90‑day extension of moratoriums that temporarily block the acceptance and approval of new applications for community‑oriented residential social‑service facilities and for automobile fuel‑dispensing and service stations, prompting public appeals from a developer who said the pause jeopardizes months and hundreds of thousands of dollars of investment.

Attorney Rebecca Simpson told council her client, Troy Station LLC, has pursued permits and approvals for a proposed gas station at the southeast corner of Diehl Road and County Road 25A since mid‑2023 and said the owner paid about $170,000 for the property and invested roughly $400,000 more in plans and engineering. "We had asked the committee for an exception for my client," Simpson said, and requested that council either grant an exemption or move the unified…