Plan to Bring U-Haul to Madison Avenue Runs Out of Gas

A proposal to open a U-Haul truck rental facility at the site of the gas station at 14235 Madison Avenue hit a roadblock at last week’s .

It never really even got off the ground.

Felix Pena, representing , shared his plans with the commission last Thursday to open a truck rental facility on the property.

He was seeking a conditional use permit for the project, which he said would have included a fleet of energy-effiecient rental trucks.

However, the commission determined that because there is a gas station already on the property, the zoning codes would not allow it.

“Unfortunately at this location, it’s not possible,” said Dru Siley, the city’s director  of planning and development.

Pena withdrew the request after he learned the commission couldn’t even hear the proposal.

“Because it’s a gas station, we’d have to revise our code to allow it,” commission member Mary Cierebiej said.

That was good news to a couple of neighbors who attended the meeting.

“I am so glad that it didn’t happen,” said Barbara Biggins, who lives just south of the property. “It would have been a nightmare.”