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The City Council on Tuesday denied plans to build an oil-changing business across from the gates of the exclusive Nellie Gail community, but waived a city provision that would have kept the project out of the council’s hands for a year.
Mayor Joel T. Lautenschleger, the lone member to vote in support of the project, said the entire council would most likely approve the plans to build an EZ Lube at the Western Country Plaza at Oso and Moulton parkways if the business was designed to blend in better with the western-themed plaza.
“I feel they made a good effort to make it look as nice as they could,” Lautenschleger said. “But the rest of the council wanted it to have less of a visual impact.”
Though they denied the project, council members did agree to allow EZ Lube President Michael Dobson to resubmit new plans to the council right away rather than wait a year, as typically required by city codes.
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