A site plan for a Wawa gas station and convenience store on the northwest corner of County Road 466 and U.S. 301 was recommended for approval Tuesday by the Wildwood Planning and Zoning Board despite a lingering boundary dispute between the property owner and the neighboring Oxford United Methodist Church.
At issue is the church’s well, which a recent land survey commissioned by the Wawa site’s property owner CLD Properties found to be on its property.
Representing the church, attorney Arlene Udick said a 1973 property survey placed the well on the church’s property. She said the church also is getting another property survey and is trying to reach a solution with CLD Properties.
A one-story, 6,119-square-foot gas station and convenience store is proposed for the 5.4-acre site and the property includes two other parcels totaling 2.2 acres.
Special Magistrate Archie O. Lowry studied a 1973 survey map presented by Udick, but said it was not signed by the surveyor.
“You’ve got to give me some evidence,” he said. “What you’ve given me is not evidential whatsoever.”
Before recommending approval of the site plan, Lowry suggested the church bring its new survey and other evidence to an Aug. 22 meeting of the Wildwood City Commission, when the commission will take up the plan.
Wawa plans to add 120 Florida stores by 2022. The company has more than 700 stores in the mid-Atlantic region and opened its first Florida store in July 2012. It offers soup, sub sandwiches, fresh coffee and other food items.
In other cases at Tuesday’s meeting, Lowry recommended approval of:
· A site plan for a 15,997-square-foot building and a 900-square-foot storage building on 8.77 acres at New Life Christian Church on County Road 462.
· A site plan to build six 12,000-square-foot buildings and one 5,000-square-foot storage building on 13.8 acres for expansion of My Garage, where people can store and tinker with their vehicles, in the business park south of State Road 44 and east of U.S. 301.
· Rezoning for 13.89 acres of recently annexed property south of State Road 44 and east of Buena Vista Boulevard to low-density residential. The property and adjacent land will be part of an age-restricted subdivision.
