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Commission refers 7 Brew drive-through at Schnucks to site-plan subcommittee after traffic, parking and landscaping concerns
Summary
A proposed 7 Brew drive-through at the Schnucks shopping center drew detailed traffic and parking analysis from the city’s consultants; commissioners referred the proposal to a site-plan subcommittee to let the applicant provide additional studies and landscape revisions.
The Planning and Zoning Commission on June 11 sent the conditional-use permit and site-development plan for a proposed 7 Brew drive-through in the Schnucks shopping center (8828 Manchester Road) to its site-plan subcommittee after extensive discussion about traffic circulation, queuing and required landscaping.
Applicant Joe Rafferty said the franchise’s operation uses two drive-through lanes, electronic order pads and staffing levels that the operator said are necessary to reach target service times; Rafferty described the business model as community-focused and said franchise groups typically staff stands to meet quick-service targets.
City consultants presented detailed reviews. Lee Cannon, the city’s on-call traffic engineer, estimated typical tenant-specific trips at a comparable retail location and reported that 7 Brew’s own data and other store…
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