AURORA | If it seems like there’s no shortage of gas stations along South Havana Street in southwest Aurora, you’re right.

In the 3.6-mile span between East Alameda and East Dartmouth avenues, 12 gas stations line the distance, nearly one on every block.

City council members this week agreed there should be one more.

“I will say I hear all the time from my constituents in southeast Aurora,” Councilmember Françoise Bergan said during Monday’s city council meeting. “They’re sick of seeing gas stations.”

The abundance of gas stations in the area is one reason Aurora’s Planning and Zoning Commission took an unusual step recently to oppose a site plan and conditional use proposal for a QuikTrip fueling station to replace the old Sam’s No. 3, which stood near the corner of Havana Street and

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