Best One Tire Service plans to build new facility near Interstate 65

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A local tire business plans to relocate closer to Interstate 65 in an effort to focus on semi traffic.

Best One Tire Service, which has leased the George’s of Seymour building at 301 E. Second St. since 2018, has plans to build a new 22,921-square-foot facility at 1000 S. Commerce Drive on the city’s east side.

Thomas W. Sander, owner of George’s Best One Tire, received a vote of 8-0 from the Seymour Plan Commission on Thursday to develop the 10.07-acre property for a new commercial tire center. Commissioners Bernie Hauersperger, John Reinhart and Gary Colglazier did not attend the meeting.

The board also approved Sander’s request to rezone the property from R-S, residential suburban, to C-3, commercial highway business. That petition will come before the city council Feb. 24.

Sander said the business will sell truck tires and provide service.

“We’re going to have a four-bay shop along the interstate there,” he said.

Michelle Stephens and her husband, Greg, attended Thursday’s meeting to get more information about the project. They live directly behind the Commerce Drive property in the 1000 block of Sunset Lane in the Pebblebrooke Subdivision.

“We’re not technically opposing it, but as we live there, and that’s our backyard,” she said. “I just have some questions I want to ask and hope you can answer for us.”

Stephens said she was concerned with noise and wanted to know what hours the business would be open.

Brent Sander, who has worked in the tire business for more than 30 years, said the tire center would open at 7:30 a.m. and close at 5 p.m.

“I don’t have a problem with that,” Michelle said.

She also asked if all work would be completed inside the facility, which Brent responded it would.

“Our main concern is that we don’t want to hear it after hours,” she said. “We spend a lot of time in our backyard in the summer. We’ve lived there for 20-plus years and never had anything behind us.”

Stephens also asked if the Sanders intended to build some type of barrier between the properties so they don’t have to see the development.

Planning and zoning ordinances require a buffer, Building Commissioner Jeremy Gray said. That buffer likely will be a 6-foot berm.

Commission President Don Myers Jr. asked about storage of old tires on the premises.

Brent said all used tires are stored in a trailer and the company uses a certified hauler and recycles the tires.

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