The new store will measure 7,320 square feet, according to information presented Tuesday to the city’s Plan and Zoning Commission. It will have eight fuel pumps.

The company has already purchased six properties immediately to the east of the store to make room for the new one. A couple of houses in the 200 block of North 16th Street have been demolished.

A building on Second Avenue North that houses Salon & Co. will eventually be demolished as well.

The new store will sit behind the current one, on that property along North 16th Street. It will face west, as the current store does.

On Tuesday, the commission was tasked with making a recommendation on rezoning the recently purchased properties on 16th Street and Second Avenue North from multifamily residential and office commercial to arterial commercial status.

It also had to make a recommendation on updating the future land use plan to reflect that change.

The commission voted to recommend those changes, sending them to the City Council for final action.

Before Tuesday’s meeting, the city planning staff received a letter from a resident of the 1500 block of Third Avenue North who asked if a fence would be put up on the north side of the Kwik Star property, along an alley. According to a representative of Kwik Star, a privacy fence will be installed and will extend all along the north side of the property.

Howard Zimmerle, who lives in the 1600 block of Second Avenue North, asked during the meeting about the lighting on the store’s property and if it will be intrusive for the neighbors.

The company will be required to install lights that point straight down and are enclosed so that the bulbs cannot be seen from the sides, according to Thomas Leichliter, the associate city planner.

“The goal is to reduce as much outward light pollution as is humanly possible,” he said.

Zimmerle also asked if there will be landscaping on the back of the Kwik Star property.

Leichliter said the company has submitted a plan that appears to exceed the minimum planting requirements.