Kroger fuel center in East Cobb approved by commissioners

Sandy Plains Centre, Kroger fueling center

Following last Friday’s post about Kroger’s proposed fuel center at Sandy Plains Centre: Cobb commissioners approved the measure Tuesday on their consent agenda.

The grocery chain initially got rezoning for the fueling center in 2011 in a case that included the construction of a Chick-fil-A that did not happen.

Kroger’s revised site plan also calls for nine pumping stations, compared to the original five, and to realign the fueling center to be parallel with Shallowford Road.

On April 10 Kroger’s attorneys submitted a letter with more than a dozen stipulations, and commissioners Tuesday moved to put the item on their consent agenda, which was approved unanimously.

Among the conditions are operating hours of 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. seven days a week and no beer and alcohol sales to be permitted at the fueling center.

Kroger fuel center Sandy Plains Centre

 

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Kroger plans fueling center at Sandy Plains Centre

Sandy Plains Centre, Kroger fueling center

For the second time in as many years Kroger wants to build a fueling center in the East Cobb area.

The grocery chain’s request for a location at the Sandy Plains Centre Shopping Center comes before the Cobb Board of Commissioners Tuesday.

It’s listed as “other business” (view the case file here) and includes a revised site plan (see map below) for a nine-pump station fronting Shallowford Road, near Gordy Parkway.

That’s at the front of the shopping center on the southwest corner of Shallowford and Sandy Plains Road (signified by a red star) that includes a Kroger store (green pin).

According to documents filed with the Cobb Zoning Office, commissioners in 2011 approved a rezoning case at the shopping center that called for additional retail space, a restaurant and a fueling center that was never built.

Kroger fueling center Sandy Plains Centre

The CRC zoning status still applies, and the site plan for the fueling center is revised from that 2011 application.

The original request was for no more than five pumps at the fueling center, and allowed a canopy with a maximum height of 22 feet.

Other stipulations banned beer and alcohol sales at the fuel center, permitted an air station (but no car vacuum devices) and set its operating hours between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m. six days a week.

Those hours are similar what Kroger sought for a fueling center in 2018 at the Pavilions at East Lake on Roswell Road. That request was approved but construction has not begun on the gas station there.

The rest of the commissioners’ zoning hearing agenda can be found here. The meeting begins at 9 a.m. in the second floor boardroom of the Cobb Office Building, 100 Cherokee St., in downtown Marietta.

 

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