CITY COUNCIL GRANTS TWO SPECIAL USE PERMITS

  

Two Specific use permits were granted today on their second reading by Brenham City Council.  Redeemer Church Brenham will be allowed to operate the Church School and hold Sunday Services on their property at 2111 South Blue Bell Road.  Redeemer recently purchased Brenham Christian Academy and plans on continuing the school at that location.

Council also granted a Specific Use Permit to On Site Clean Car to operate an automobile detail shop at 1414 West Main Street.  At the last meeting, Councilwoman Susan Cantey questioned what the business would look like from someone driving into the city on Main Street.  City staffers added wording into the Specific Use Permit requiring the owner to screen his operations from view.  Owner of the business, Alex Tran, explained the council that he intended to operate the business in a clean and organized manner, but that he objected to the requirement that he shield his operation from view when the other detail shops in town are allowed to operate in the open.  Council then agreed to remove the screening from Main Street requirement, but put a 6 month limit on the permit.  At that time the council would consider renewing the permit depending on how the business looked.

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  1. Come on “mam” ! Here we go again with one sided conversation and I agree with the lady who spoke up about keeping a business from being an eye sore but really take a look around and if she’s wanting to put shields up in every in coming entrance to Brenham then she better get in touch with Mr. T and maybe come up with a plan and help pay to build that Great Wall of Brenham… I wish good luck to all the clean, ugly business just as long as you treat your customers in a respectful manner and be honest and fair.

  2. At the last meeting, Councilwoman Susan Cantey questioned what the business would look like from someone driving into the city on Main Street. Apparently Ms Cantey has never entered Brenham from that direction or else she would have noticed the ” Junk Yard” next to the train tracks. Old cars, Piles of tires and other junk items greets anyone that comes into Brenham from that direction, and yet she has never questioned the owner of that business about how his place will look. Every time I ride with family or friends from out of town they comment on the mess that greets you as you enter Brenham and ask me why the city allows that? …what a Black eye for the city of Brenhams first appearance to out of towners . why make ONE business promise to keep a clean orderly place and allow the other to do what ever they want.?

    1. i thought Brenham excepted all. You judge a business by what you see. To others this an individual making a living. Stop calling another person business junk look at it as a thriving business bringing money into the community. Stop making Brenham people sound like stuck up goody to shoes. This started as a country town where all people have the right to make a living. I to have out of town guest and they enjoy seeing that Brenham excepts all businesses.

      1. Brenham government has obviously done and is continuing to do plain weird stuff that is costing us our tax dollars. They allow iddy bitty residential lots. They allow giant out of scale structures now at Blinn College. Streets are not developed properly. It is obvious that their planning department is grossly incapable of making these decisions. I hope the new city management will get a good grip on planning before it is too late. I hope it is not too late already.

    2. I keep seeing references to this business in the comments here, and I always wonder why it is singled out. Currently, within only a couple of blocks of this business, other businesses store large, heavy old doors on the sidewalk, display second-hand furniture and other ‘junk’ through warehouse doors, have their lot continually overflowing with old cars awaiting repair, or leave large rusty antique industrial equipment in the same spot for decades, and many buildings could ‘use a lick of paint.’ While definitions of ‘tidy’ or ‘orderly’ might differ, if fresh-painted walls are the main concern, then perhaps the business(es) at question could benefit from participation in the Arts Festival mural-painting program..?

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