Title
Request for Conditional Use Approval to allow a modular coffee drive-through with landscaping within an outlot within the Meijer parking lot, 3099-3175 S. Rochester Rd., south of Auburn Rd., zoned B-3 Shopping Center Business District with an FB-3 Flexible Business Overlay, Kyan Flynn and Deanna Richard, 24Ten, LLC, Applicant
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Resolved, that the Rochester Hills City Council hereby denies the Conditional Use to allow a modular coffee drive-through with landscaping within an outlot within the Meijer parking lot, 3099-3175 S. Rochester Rd., south of Auburn Rd., zoned B-3 Shopping Center Business District with an FB-3 Flexible Business Overlay, based on plans dated received by the Planning Department on December 1, 2021 and September 17, 2021 with the following findings:
Findings
1. The use will not promote the intent and purpose of the Zoning Ordinance because (i) the Zoning Ordinance promotes building architecture and aesthetics to be compatible and harmonious with the surrounding area, which the proposed building fails to do, and approval of the proposed development would set an adverse precedent to allow similar buildings to be developed in many parking lots and other similar areas of the City; and (ii) the Zoning Ordinance promotes safe vehicular access, which the proposed site does not provide due to potential traffic conflicts between the only site entrance and traffic passing thereby from three (3) other directions in a busy shopping center. Further, the Zoning Ordinance does not specifically promote modular drive-through structures that look like the proposed modular structures within existing parking lots, nor does it promote a business with only a drive-through and no seating area inside a building. If approved, there are concerns that such uses could proliferate throughout the City, which would create visual clutter and be detrimental to the building and development standards of the community.
2. The site and the proposed building have ...
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