The city council’s vote to deny a 20-year SUP extension to Woodard Auto on Ross Avenue is a couple of weeks old now, and if you’ve been following the issue, you know the Woodard family has run its automotive repair business there for about 80 years. And you also know that as part of the city’s efforts to reclaim Ross Avenue from auto dealers, repair shops and bars, virtually all of the auto-related businesses (more than 30, I believe) have been denied SUPs to keep them on Ross or have been rezoned to force them to move — that’s part of the process of turning Ross (or maybe Cesar Chavez Avenue?) back into the gateway to East Dallas and Lakewood it once was. Anyway, Angela Hunt posted a thoughtful commentary on her vote to deny the Woodard’s request for the 20-year SUP extension (she also explains the issue better than I can). Agree or not, it’s interesting reading on the difficulty of applying city zoning decisions to multiple businesses with different and sometimes compelling stories, as well as the meandering path of trouble that can be created if you don’t.