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Belmont approves Quality Plus convenience store and gas station with traffic-signal mitigation and fence condition
Summary
Council approved a conditional zoning for a proposed Quality Plus gas station at 6915 Wilkinson Boulevard, requiring the developer to build traffic mitigations — including a warranted traffic signal and a westbound right-turn lane — and to install a six-foot privacy fence; the applicant agreed to cover any cost overage beyond an existing payment-in-lieu.
Belmont’s City Council on May 4 approved a conditional zoning amendment that will allow Quality Oil Company to build a Quality Plus convenience store and gas station at 6915 Wilkinson Boulevard, contingent on several traffic and screening safeguards.
The project site is a 1.3-acre, double-frontage corner lot in the Wilkinson Boulevard highway corridor overlay. Planning staff described the plan as a 685-square-foot convenience building, five fuel dispensers serving up to 10 vehicles, a stormwater basin, and limited on-site parking. Because the lot is under the code’s two-acre threshold for automotive services within the overlay, the applicant requested multiple reliefs including a 15-foot buffer in lieu of the usual 30-foot HC-to-residential buffer, allowance to use Hardy board materials, and adjustments to street-tree placement to avoid…
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