Plans for a gas station at the main entrance to San Juan
Bautista in the parking lot of Windmill Market will come before the
city council on Sept. 21 for approval.
Plans for a gas station at the main entrance to San Juan Bautista in the parking lot of Windmill Market will come before the city council on Sept. 21 for approval.
The city’s planning commission recently forwarded the plan to the council for approval, opening the door for a business owned by Jim Gibson to drive more customers to his store and more shoppers to the historic downtown.
“Logically, we should get the approval,” said Gibson, who, along with Hank So, owns the Windmill Market development at the corner of Hwy. 156 and The Alameda. “We’re making an investment in San Juan to increase traffic to our location, and by extension it would help the rest of the town.”
Despite what he sees as the economic benefits of the proposed gas station, which would be the city’s second such business, Gibson is bracing for opposition.
“‘No’ is almost like automatic in the city of San Juan Bautista,” he said. “Say ‘no’ and worry about it later. That’s what they do in San Juan – they say ‘no.’ We’ll see what happens.”
Gibson’s plan for the gas station proposes four fueling stations that can handle up to eight vehicles at a time. The station would fit into the width of one row of parking spaces at the shopping center, which also includes a pizza restaurant, beauty parlor and the city post office.
See the full story in the Pinnacle on Friday.
