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ZBA denies 918 Riverview Drive request to sell beer and wine at planned Speedway/7‑Eleven
Summary
The Zoning Board of Appeals denied a variance request to allow beer-and-wine sales at a planned Speedway-branded 7‑Eleven at the former Walgreens site at 918 Riverview Drive, citing the city's separation rules meant to reduce nuisance concentrations of off-site alcohol sales.
The City of Kalamazoo Zoning Board of Appeals on March 13 denied a variance request that would have allowed beer and wine sales at a planned Speedway-branded 7‑Eleven at 918 Riverview Drive, the former Walgreens site.
The board considered an application from Sesco Incorporated (applicant listed in the public notice) represented at the hearing by Mandy Goss of CESO (applicant representative). The application sought relief from chapter 50-4.41(a) of the zoning ordinance, which requires a 2,640-foot separation between package liquor uses; the applicant asked for a 2,265-foot variance, yielding approximately 375 feet of separation from an existing nearby liquor retailer identified in the record as “13 and a half” liquor store.
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