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DeKALB – A auto repair business may have found a new home in the city’s Fourth Street corridor and as the shop’s owner looks to grow operations at 1106 S. Fourth St. The applicant, A.

H. Auto Repair owner Halmar Rodriguez, approached members of the DeKalb Planning and Zoning Commission this week to rezone four neighboring properties at 1104 to 1124 S. Fourth St.



to establish a vehicle service and repair facility and a hair salon, reestablish one dwelling unit and continue one dwelling unit. “I had the opportunity to purchase the properties that we’re talking about today,” Rodriguez said. “The main building, which is 1106 [S.

Fourth St.] is the building that I ..

. want to run my business out of. This gives myself and my small family-owned company a chance to expand a little bit.

” In a 4-0 vote, the panel decided Monday to authorize the auto repair shop’s rezoning request with a set of three conditions, along with planned development standards. Those include striping the parking lot, adding a handicap space, restriping the ATM and paving the service bays. Chairman Max Maxwell and Commissioners Jerry Wright and Maria Pena-Graham were absent.

The rezoning – from general district to planned development commercial district – will accommodate the auto repair shop and a beauty salon, which the petitioner’s wife will operate, according to . It also will permit the reestablishment of the home at 1110 S. Fourth St.

, which had been vacant for seven to eight months..

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