Welcome to the Municipality of Monroeville Planning Commission for July
15th, 2026. If we could stand, please, for the
Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of silence. Silence.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.
Okay, thank you. Sharon, if you could do roll call, please.
» Mrs. Montgomery. >> Here.
» Mrs. Lawrence. Mr. Walker.
» Here. >> Mrs. Lewisburg.
» Here. >> Mr. Segelson.
Mr. Seaman. >> Here.
» Mr. Proughnel. >> Here.
» Mr. Weldon. >> Here.
» Very good. And if I could get a motion for approval
of minutes for our meeting from July, excuse me, June 17th, 2026.
» I'll make the motion. >> Second.
» All in favor? >> Aye.
» Aye. >> Very good. And then, Paul, if we could
have new business. >> We have uh two agenda items tonight.
They're both the same applicant, 7 Brew. Uh the first one is 26 3 St 7 Brew.
Applicant is requesting site plan approval pursuant to Monroeville's
Zoning Ordinance number 2779 as amended to permit the construction and operation
of a drive-thru coffee business and associated site amenities.
The property address is 4111 William Penn Highway and identified as tax
parcel 743H040
in the Boulevard Zoning District. And I'll read the second one, also, since
they're related. >> Mhm.
» 24 or 264C 7 Brew. Applicant is requesting conditional use
approval pursuant to Article 7
planned non-residential development playing group unit of the Minerva zoning
ordinance number 2779 as amended to permit multiple principal structures on
one property. Property address is 4111
William Penn Highway and identified as tax parcel 743 H040
in the Boulevard zoning district. And the applicant is here. You want to
show us what you got? >> Good evening.
Good evening. I'm Bob Gage. I am with Who Brew LLC. We are a franchisee of 7
Brew Coffee. Uh we are proposing to construct a 510
square foot uh drive-thru coffee shop with an
associated uh cooler building. Can you guys see this?
You're not up there yet. >> Give him a second. If you want him to
uh bring that up on on this screen, just let him know and he'll focus on it.
There it is. Just push it towards uh chairwoman.
» Yeah, right there. Okay.
So, uh as I was stating, this is the uh main building. This is 510 square feet.
It is a modular building. It will arrive on site on the back of a truck.
» Mhm. >> Uh
it is manufactured in Kansas along with the cooler building, which is this
structure. This is just a support structure for the main facility.
Uh we do have a right-in right-out uh access drive off of uh William Penn
Highway 22, uh which you enter the site here,
go up and around to the north and then enter into the queue lanes, which are
these two lanes. This is a double drive-thru.
And um as you come down through, we have employees that actually stand out in
these lanes and take orders pretty similar to a Chick-fil-A facility, the
way that that is operated. So, they have iPads. They will take uh the orders. The
orders are relayed into the main building. The The orders are made and
then runners run those out to the customers in their cars.
We are providing a bypass lane around the outside of the two queue lanes. Uh
the whole purpose for that is that if you've got somebody that's sitting here
that's getting an order that's fairly large and then somebody back in the
queue that has one drink order, uh they can get their order in and get out in
the bypass lane and bypass the other customers that are waiting for their
orders. Uh we currently have this designed for
31 cars in the queue, which is from this location all the way around to here.
Uh as you can see, if we do have any
overload issues, we do have room to stack cars uh in the drive all the way
back out to 22 if necessary. Uh 31 cars typically will handle the
normal business rush that we have. Uh we have a a peak hour in the morning,
typically from uh 6:00 to 8:00, and then uh in the afternoon is actually the
busiest peak that we have, and that typically runs from 4:00 to 6:00.
During those peak hours, uh what we're seeing once the store is opened and the
customer base is established, uh after we get through the newness of
the of the facility, they typically settle down and we are seeing
consistently 28 cars maximum in that peak hour in the afternoon.
Normally throughout the day, uh these businesses uh these facilities that
we're seeing will have seven to eight cars in the queue. So, we think we've
designed uh the site large enough with enough queue to handle whatever business
that we do any any kind of a rush that we have. Uh along with the 31 cars
in the queue lanes, we also have parking spaces for 17 vehicles.
Um one of those being a handicap uh parking space.
This is a 100% drive-thru facility, so there is no walk-up traffic. We did
There is no place to sit down and and consume your beverage inside the the
building. The parking spaces are for the employees
only. >> I was going to ask that, like who's
parking? You have 17 spaces for employees. How many employees?
» Yeah, so typically these it's a little different the way that the the
operations work on these. They have 4-hour shifts.
» Okay. >> whole idea is to have we we hire people
between 18 and 24 years old. We want everybody keyed up and on their game as
long as they're there. So the the shifts are shorter, so everybody is
not fatigued at the end of an 8-hour shift. We make the shift change every 4
hours. So
to start with these
once we when we get started, we typically have
eight to 10 people. >> Mhm.
» Employees. Now whenever we have rushes, we can go up to 22 people that they can
call in and and be at the on the facility at one time.
» Mhm. >> Once we start the facility once we start
the operations, we will hire 75 people to man this this particular stand.
» Wow. >> So we'll have the ability to call in as
many as we need if we do see rushes coming and so on and so forth.
So we've made all the submittals. We're
going through the review process now. We've received a couple review letters
and comments. I don't think there's anything that we can't get over.
Everything looks like it's just basically clean up items at this point.
We are using the same traffic engineer that the car wash is using. So they're
handling the HOP permit for us and them at the same time. I know that they have
generated a traffic analysis report and have submitted that to DOT and that's in
review now. So once that is back, then the HOP will be able to be reviewed and
and approved. Don't see any big issues with that as far as
DOT is concerned. We are leaving the existing entry points where they're at
currently. This was a right-of-way at one point the
building that is being demolished. So we're not changing locations or sizes
of our right in right out. And then we also have the ability to go back out to
Center Street into the light for anybody that is coming in and wants to
go back to the east as they leave our facility.
» Is there [clears throat] an actual um separation like a
wall? It just looks like it's green space the between the car wash and the
» It's just green space. >> It's a green space.
» Yes, ma'am. There is a retaining wall back on the
backside. I don't know if you guys have been to this side or not, but it's
fairly steep back on the back. There's a guardrail that is existing there that we
do intend to to leave in place. Um
and then obviously we're we're meeting all the landscape requirements.
Uh we were asked to put in a ADA ramp from the sidewalk out front on uh
on Penn Highway. So that's what this is. Um I think currently there is a set of
stairs there. We'll remove those and then put this ramp in place. So we've
got ADA access to the site. Which is a requirement by the
municipality. We don't anticipate any people walking up to the building.
» going to say if you have no walk-up That's interesting.
» It's just a requirement. We have to do it. We're
we're being forced. >> [clears throat]
» Okay. >> Uh any any other questions?
» What is that building up uh >> This one?
» No, up here. >> Um
» You drive past it on the way in. >> Is it trash? Looks like trash.
» Uh oh, up here on top. Yes, that is a the trash enclosure and it will have
it's a 6-ft tall trash enclosure and the finish materials on it will match the
building. >> And what's the cooler?
» The cooler is just where we store all of the milk and products that we use for
the next drinks. >> that's a separate building. You have to
walk outside. >> Correct. Yes, sir. There is a canopy
structure that goes over part of the drive-thru and then
spans the gap between the building and the cooler.
And it'll be under cover, but it will you We
do have to go outside and get the support.
Did you bring uh Yes.
So, this is what the prototype building looks like.
So, uh
This is the cooler or I'm sorry, this is the canopy that spans between. This
particular one doesn't show the cooler in the right location. It's actually sit
that sits right here. Um let me see if this other one may
show. So, that's the configuration right there. It's just mirrored from what
we're actually doing on this site. So, this is the cooler building.
And it'll it'll actually be on the other side if you go look back at that uh
» And it's that tall. This is the right height.
» That's correct. Yes. >> So, I guess you're bringing two trucks.
» It will actually it will come in three trucks. So, the main [laughter] part of
the building from the canopy down, this is one one unit that'll come by itself
and then this structure here is a separate structure that is put on top
once it arrives on site. And then this is the cooler building which is on
another truck. >> Okay.
» Questions?
» Looks good. Any other questions you guys?
All right. I guess we'll take a motion to approve.
» Motion to approve. >> I'll second.
» All in favor? >> Aye.
» Aye. >> That's for both of them.
» Both. >> Both, yeah.
» Yes. >> Yep.
» Thank you very much. >> Very good. You're welcome.
» Thank you. >> We're on to
» to the next. >> Yeah.
» Yeah. Next month, first Tuesday and second Tuesday. I'll send you an email
tomorrow. >> Sounds great sometimes.
» Perfect. >> Hey, we actually have that information,
but an email would be good. Glad to hear from you.
» Thank you very much. Appreciate it. >> Thank you.
Very good. All right.
If anything else, I think we need a motion to adjourn.
» I'll make a motion. >> I'll second.
» All in favor? >> Aye.
» Aye. >> Meeting adjourned.
» And I will
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