“Our department in general is not anti-car wash,” said James Fowler, director of transportation. “That’s not the future of where we’d like to head as a city.”
Looking west on University Boulevard toward UAB, a car wash was proposed west of the Shell station on the lot occupied by the billboard. Birmingham’s moratorium on new car washes got another test on Tuesday, but unlike last month the latest applicant didn’t make it through cleanly to the other side of a thorough scrubbing by the City Council.
Tom Spies, president of LIV Ventures, which appealed the moratorium on Tuesday, said the locally owned business that’s “the most expensive car wash to build” wouldn’t disrupt traffic and would be a boon to the University Boulevard corridor. The appeal fell one vote short of winning, with three council members for and three against, and one abstaining, of the seven members present.
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