Thanks, but no thanks. You're just not good enough. That seems to be the message sent by an eastern Iowa City Council on Monday when they voted against a proposal for a new, 11,000 square-foot Dollar General Store.
The Waterloo City Council voted against the new store, which would've been on what's now undeveloped land northeast of the 2600 block of E. Shaulis Road, despite unanimous approval from the city's planning commission. Dollar General had agreed to build the store to design requirements in that area. It would've had masonry-sandstone walls that were brown and gray and windows on both the south and west sides of the building.