What once was a pediatric clinic on Sandy Plains Road is being proposed for a drive-through coffee shop.
But a request to amend a site plan to accommodate the new business is being continued to November.
The Cobb Board of Commissioners was to have heard the proposal this week by BRKI, LLC, for a 7 Brew Drive Through Coffee.
But at the start of Tuesday’s zoning hearing, they voted to continue the matter for a month, to their Nov. 18 meeting.
The location is 3618 Sandy Plains Road at Gordy Parkway, where an Egleston Children’s Hospital Clinic once stood, and it’s part of the former Gordy property.
When those parcels are subject rezoning or site plan changes, they must be approved by a special architectural control review committee, and that process has not been completed.
So Cobb Zoning Division manager John Pederson asked for the continuance. The building was completed in 1995, and the clinic closed in 2020 it has remained vacant ever since.
The five-acre tract is zoned for general commercial, and the 7 Brew proposal wouldn’t change that.
The applicant is seeking to put the drive-through on the northern side of the building, keeping an existing 50-foot buffer intact.
“The proposal meets setbacks, parking and impervious zoning criteria,” according to the staff analysis. “If the amendment is approved, all previous stipulations would remain in effect, which includes the [Gordy] Architectural Control Committee review and approval for the property.”
A similar process was necessary last year when Whataburger amended a site plan nearby to convert the former O’Charley’s location.
7 Brew is a national chain of drive-through coffee locations that opened in 2017, and includes a location in Mableton. In addition to coffee, menu items include teas, lemonades, smoothies and shakes.
In the staff analysis, Cobb DOT recommended the applicant conduct a traffic study.
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Interesting. I live in this area – shop on that corner – and if this is a good coffee shop I’ll be happy about it. Starbucks is right across the street (but I never go there.)