Belleville City Council approves site plan for new drive-thru coffee shop
Belleville City Council has approved a site plan for a Dutch Bros Coffee shop to be built at 1672 Carlyle Ave., west of Green Mount Road.
The 986-square-foot building will have a drive-thru window, according to the plan. The developer is listed as Scott Feldt of Premier Design Group in Wentzville, Missouri, and the property owner is JADC Commercial Development in of Cincinatti, Ohio.
“The Planning Commission voted unanimously in favor of recommending approval of the Site Plan with the condition that the concerns raised by TWM Engineering be addressed prior to final approval,” Zoning Administrator Dusty Hosna wrote in a memo.
TWM is the firm that the city hired to review the site plan.
The Oregon-based coffee company first expanded into Illinois in September with a Glen Carbon location. It opened locations in Fairview Heights and Urbana in December and Mount Vernon in February.
Also on Monday night, aldermen approved a list of 17 engineering firms preapproved to work on city projects in the next five years. Each had responded to a request for qualifications.
“We’re not limiting the number of firms,” said City Engineer Scott Saeger, when asked about a change in process under the administration of Mayor Jenny Gain Meyer.
Only five firms were preapproved under former Mayor Patty Gregory, a decision that led one firm, Kaskaskia Engineering Group, to allege that politics was playing a role.
The new process will allow the city to hire any one of the 17 firms, matching qualifications with projects.
“We felt like to get better prices, there needed to be more competition, more options for the city to choose from,” Saeger said.
In other business, aldermen voted to:
- Amend the city land-use ordinance to include newly established liquor license designations.
- Grant Krimson Achievement Youth Foundation a special-use permit to operate an establishment with a liquor license at 802 W C St.
- Grant a special-use permit for Bonfire Holdings to build a sports and business complex in an area zoned single-family residential at 4204 Frank Scott Parkway West.
- Amend the city traffic ordinance to remove language related to parking meters.
- Amend city business regulations to update insurance-related requirements.
- Approve an updated intergovernmental agreement between the city and St. Clair Township for sewage services.
- Allow parking on the south side of West Cleveland from State Street to South Sixth Street.
- Create a handicap parking space at 111 E. Adams St.
- Approve a TWM Professional Services proposal for alley parking to be added to GIS data at a cost of $4,500.
- Approve memorandums of understanding with city employee unions about contributions to insurance premiums.
- Close portions of East Main Street, North and South Jackson, North and South High and North Church and allow Cooper Fire to use Paderborn Square for its Rock the Blue barbecue, bourbon and blues festival on June 6.
- Close portions of East Garfield and Abend streets and provide city services on June 20 for an event called Belleville History Field Day: One City, Many Stories, sponsored by local historical organizations.
- Close a portion of South High Street and provide city services on July 18 for Pickle Palooza, sponsored by Sugar High Bakery & Café.
- Close portions of West Main Street and allow the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to use the northwest quadrant off Belleville Public Square on Oct. 17 for its Out of Darkness Community Walk.
- Request permission from the Illinois Department of Transportation to close Illinois 159 for Art on the Square from May 14-17.
