The Forney Planning and Zoning Commission failed to approve a conditional use permit for a proposed Club Car Wash at 1120 College Avenue in the Fox Hollow retail development, leaving the site's site plan ineligible for approval.

Staff described a proposed automatic tunnel car wash on 1.28 acres immediately west of South FM 548 and north of FM 741 in the shopping center that includes Tom Thumb. The proposed facility would have a 5,163-square-foot wash building, 17 self-serve vacuum stations, five employee parking spaces, and a stacking plan that staff said meets zoning requirements.

Eric Kircher, representing Club Car Wash, outlined the operator's site-selection practices and mitigation measures, including water-recycling systems that the company said reuse roughly 30% of process water and internal grit and sand separators that discharge to sanitary sewer rather than stormwater.

Opposition came from local business owners and residents. Keith Jones, owner of Classic Car Wash less than a mile from the proposed site, questioned the applicant's projected daily volumes and warned of increased traffic on the FM 548/741/1641 corridors. “If I exited 548 or 741 to go into these two car washes, I would do it once, maybe twice because of how much trouble it is to get back out on the roads,” Jones said.

Developer Steve Gregory and the property owner argued the car wash is a common complementary use in grocery-anchored centers and that Club Car Wash is an experienced national operator; developer representatives also said other tenants, such as a planned dental office on an adjacent pad, factor into site planning.

Resident James Jordan and others questioned market saturation, citing a developer-provided guideline of one express tunnel car wash per 30,000 residents and asserting Forney already hosts several tunnel washes.

After public comment, a motion to approve the conditional use permit was put to a voice vote. The initial tally resulted in a deadlock (three in favor, three opposed), and a subsequent hand-count confirmed the motion failed. Because the conditional use permit was not approved, the site plan for the Club Car Wash could not be approved at this meeting.

Staff indicated the applicant may return with revisions; a site plan cannot proceed without the conditional-use approval in the applicable planned-development zoning.

The public record includes the applicant's site plan, renderings, landscape plan, and written comments distributed by staff.