The City of Boerne planning department held a neighborhood discussion on Aug. 19, 2025, about a proposed Scooter’s Coffee drive-through and special use permit for a site at 31500 IH-10 next to the existing Bill Miller’s restaurant.

Joanne Marie Andrade, a planner with the City of Boerne, opened the meeting and explained that the Special Use Permit (SUP) would be needed only for the drive-through; Scooter’s Coffee is an allowed use in the C-3 zoning district but not the drive-through component while within the Scenic Interstate Corridor overlay.

The applicant, who identified himself only as Andrew, said he and his wife live across the street from the site and operate an existing Scooter’s Coffee in Kerrville. He said the proposed building would have a 668-square-foot footprint, a drive-through lane designed to stack roughly 12 vehicles, and shared parking arranged with the adjacent Bill Miller’s property. “For example, in Kerrville, we average 2 minutes,” Andrew said, referring to the elapsed time from pulling into the queue to leaving the window.

Project representatives described landscaping and stormwater measures intended to reduce environmental and visual impacts. The applicant said the landscape plan relies on native, drought-tolerant plants (a xeriscape approach) and includes a bioswale and biofilter intended to treat stormwater before it reaches the city system. Lighting will be “dark-sky” style and downlit to meet city requirements, the applicant said.

On traffic, the applicant said trip-generation calculations following the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) manual show the small building footprint produces trips below the city’s threshold for a formal traffic-impact analysis. The applicant said the calculation worksheets have been submitted to Public Works for review and concurrence and that vehicle access would use existing cross-access drives shared with Valero, Bill Miller’s and Napa Auto Parts rather than new curb cuts.

Residents asked about pedestrian safety between parking and the walk-up ordering area and how queuing would be managed. Project staff said angled parking and a striped ADA-accessible route would connect parking to the building and that an employee positioned outside during busy periods could help move orders through the queue. The applicant confirmed the onsite ordering speaker and stated stacking capacity as six cars to the window plus six cars between the entrance and ordering point, consistent with the earlier description of roughly a 12-car stack.

No formal vote or decision occurred at the neighborhood discussion. Planning staff said feedback from this meeting will be shared with the Planning and Zoning Commission; the applicant and staff said they are aiming to place the item on a P&Z agenda tentatively around Oct. 6, 2025. Members of the public were told they will have formal opportunities to comment during the P&Z public hearing and may submit written comments to the planning department email address listed on the city website.

Details recorded at the meeting that will appear in the SUP application or in staff materials to P&Z include: the site address (31500 IH-10), the zoning district (C-3, within the Scenic Interstate Corridor overlay), building footprint (668 square feet), proposed stacking (12 vehicles total, described as 6 to the window plus 6 from entrance to speaker box), additional parking capacity (applicant said three additional spaces could fit with the proposed layout), landscaping strategy (xeriscape with native plants), stormwater feature (bioswale/biofilter), and the applicant’s trip-generation worksheets submitted to Public Works for review. A formal traffic-impact analysis was not required per the applicant’s ITE-based calculations, according to the presentation.

The discussion concluded with staff outlining next steps: the applicant may revise plans based on feedback, staff will include public comments in the P&Z packet, and the commission will hold a public hearing where the community may again comment before any final decision on the SUP.