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Marietta OKs Popeyes, Dunkin’ Donuts
Dunkin’ Donuts and Popeyes will be built next to each other at 1101 Powder Springs St. on property that has belonged to Marietta since 2017. (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Dunkin’ Donuts and Popeyes will be built in Marietta on property that has belonged to the city of Marietta since 2017.
The Marietta City Council voted 7-0 on Oct. 10 to allow Wilson Development to develop these drive-through restaurants on 1.5 acres of the city’s 2.5-acre plot at 1101 Powder Springs St.
Zoned as Planned Commercial Development (PCD), that property is across from NCG Theatre and the Cobb County Government Complex.
Approved variances include:
- reducing the setback from 10 feet to zero feet for dumpster enclosures.
- encroaching 10 feet into the required 50-foot buffer for grading of the stormwater ponds. Later the buffer will be replanted to the full 50 feet.
- allowing the buffer to contain a black, vinyl-coated chain-link fence instead of an opaque fence.
- reducing the minimum tract size from five acres to .75 acres.
- increasing the maximum impervious surface from 65 percent to 80 percent.
- waiving the sidewalk along Natchez Trace.
- allowing the approval of an exemption plat instead of a final plat before construction.
Information: popeyes.com/our-story, dunkindonuts.com/en/about/about-us
