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Richland staff recommends approval of drive‑through cafe special use permit; record left open for condition language
Summary
City planners recommended approval of a special use permit for a roughly 600‑sq. ft. drive‑through cafe at 1312 Lee Boulevard, subject to modified conditions. The hearing examiner kept the record open until the close of business on the coming Friday for final wording changes to conditions.
Mike Stevens, planning manager for the City of Richland, presented a special use permit application for a proposed drive‑through cafe at 1312 Lee Boulevard. The permit was submitted by Shane O’Neil of Clover Planning and Zoning on behalf of property owner Greg Markel. Stevens said the proposed facility would be approximately 600 square feet, located in the Central Business District (CBD) and that Richland municipal code requires a special use permit for any drive‑through facility.
Stevens reported there were no public comments on the application. He recommended approval subject to a set of conditions of approval in the staff report but proposed three specific edits: strike condition 5 (removing parking along the Gothels Drive boundary) because the queuing lane makes those spaces unnecessary; strike condition 9 because the requested title‑report item already appears in the title report; and clarify or reword condition 8. Stevens asked the hearing examiner to keep the record open to allow staff to work with the applicant to reword condition 8 and other clarifications.
Applicant representative Shane O’Neil said he agreed with the recommended modified conditions and accepted the staff findings and recommendation of approval subject to final agreed language. O’Neil requested clarification on condition 6 (regarding an ambiguous parking deficiency reference), and asked staff and the applicant to resolve it offline; he agreed to staff’s Friday close‑of‑business deadline for finalized condition language.
Hearing examiner Gary McLean opened and closed the public comment portion with no public speakers and said he would hold the administrative record open until Friday close of business for agreed condition language. He asked staff to file a single strike/replace list showing which conditions were removed or modified and to CC the applicant.
No formal vote or final decision was issued at the hearing; the examiner will consider any revised conditions submitted by the Friday deadline before issuing any written decision required by code.
