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
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