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TO: Mayor Thomas J. Weisner
FROM: Planning Commission
DATE: October 30, 2014
SUBJECT:
An Ordinance Granting a Special Use Permit with a Final Plan for a restaurant with a drive-thru on the Property located at 2230 S. Eola Road, Aurora, Illinois, 60503 (Eola Enterprises, Inc./McDonald's USA, LLC - 14-00647 / WH06/4-14.050-Su/Fpn - ES - Ward 9)
PURPOSE:
The petitioner, Eola Enterprises, Inc./McDonald's USA, LLC, is proposing a Special Use permit for a drive-thru and Final Plan for a new McDonald's restaurant located at the southeast corner of Eola Road and Hafenrichter Road.
BACKGROUND:
This petition was referred by the City Council to the Planning & Zoning Division on August 5, 2014. The petition was unanimously moved forward by the Planning Council on September 16, 2014.
DISCUSSION:
McDonald's is proposing a new 5,350 sf. restaurant with drive-thru and playplace. It will have 78 seats. 33 total parking spaces are being provided, and 26 are required. All setbacks are being met with the exception along Hafenrichter Road. Due to the shape of the lot and the curvature of the ROW, the parking lot will be within 5 feet and 5.2 feet in two separate areas on the north side. Additional landscape screening is being provided along this area. The restaurant will be on a subsequent 1.13 acre lot, with shared access provided to an additional vacant commercial lot to the south of 1.07 acres.
Staff has not received any public input on this petition.
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT POLICIES:
31.1 (3) To promote the development of commercial facilities in existing or planned commercial areas.
32.1 (1) To discourage new strip commercial development and prevent the intrusion of inappropriate commercial activity into residential areas by providing for the clustering of commercial activities in existing or planned commercial areas.
32.0 To enhance the positive and minimize the negative impact and relationships that the location, design and ...
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