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Zoning board approves variance for 7 Brew drive‑through at West Main site
Summary
The Kalamazoo Zoning Board of Appeals unanimously granted a variance July 10 to allow 7 Brew to build a drive‑through‑only coffee shop at 4702 West Main that reduces the required five‑foot landscaping buffer due to an existing 24‑foot access drive required for emergency apparatus.
The Kalamazoo Zoning Board of Appeals on July 10 approved a variance allowing 7 Brew to develop a drive‑through coffee shop at 4702 West Main despite not meeting the ordinance’s five‑foot landscaping buffer between parking and the front property line.
The board accepted staff’s analysis that a preexisting 24‑foot access drive — installed to accommodate fire‑apparatus circulation for the adjoining Chick‑fil‑A — creates a narrow residual strip between curb…
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