[0:03] Welcome to the Municipality of
Monroeville Planning Commission for July
[0:06] 15th, 2026.
If we could stand, please, for the
[0:11] Pledge of Allegiance and a moment of
silence. Silence.
[0:15] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
[0:19] Republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
[0:25] justice for all.
[0:38] Okay, thank you. Sharon, if you could do
roll call, please.
[0:42] » Mrs. Montgomery.
>> Here.
[0:44] » Mrs. Lawrence.
Mr. Walker.
[0:47] » Here.
>> Mrs. Lewisburg.
[0:48] » Here.
>> Mr. Segelson.
[0:50] Mr. Seaman.
>> Here.
[0:52] » Mr. Proughnel.
>> Here.
[0:54] » Mr. Weldon.
>> Here.
[0:57] » Very good.
And if I could get a motion for approval
[1:01] of minutes for our meeting from July,
excuse me, June 17th, 2026.
[1:05] » I'll make the motion.
>> Second.
[1:08] » All in favor?
>> Aye.
[1:09] » Aye.
>> Very good. And then, Paul, if we could
[1:13] have new business.
>> We have uh two agenda items tonight.
[1:16] They're both the same applicant, 7 Brew.
Uh the first one is 26 3 St 7 Brew.
[1:23] Applicant is requesting site plan
approval pursuant to Monroeville's
[1:26] Zoning Ordinance number 2779 as amended
to permit the construction and operation
[1:31] of a drive-thru coffee business and
associated site amenities.
[1:36] The property address is 4111 William
Penn Highway and identified as tax
[1:40] parcel
743H040
[1:44] in the Boulevard Zoning District. And
I'll read the second one, also, since
[1:49] they're related.
>> Mhm.
[1:50] » 24 or 264C 7 Brew.
Applicant is requesting conditional use
[1:56] approval
pursuant to Article 7
[1:59] planned non-residential development
playing group unit of the Minerva zoning
[2:03] ordinance number 2779 as amended to
permit multiple principal structures on
[2:08] one property.
Property address is 4111
[2:12] William Penn Highway and identified as
tax parcel 743 H040
[2:16] in the Boulevard zoning district.
And the applicant is here. You want to
[2:21] show us what you got?
>> Good evening.
[2:26] Good evening. I'm Bob Gage. I am with
Who Brew LLC. We are a franchisee of 7
[2:31] Brew Coffee.
Uh we are proposing to construct a 510
[2:35] square foot
uh drive-thru coffee shop with an
[2:38] associated uh cooler building. Can you
guys see this?
[2:41] You're not up there yet.
>> Give him a second. If you want him to
[2:45] uh bring that up on on this screen, just
let him know and he'll focus on it.
[2:49] There it is. Just push it towards uh
chairwoman.
[2:52] » Yeah, right there.
Okay.
[2:56] So, uh as I was stating, this is the uh
main building. This is 510 square feet.
[3:01] It is a modular building. It will arrive
on site on the back of a truck.
[3:04] » Mhm.
>> Uh
[3:06] it is manufactured in Kansas along with
the cooler building, which is this
[3:10] structure. This is just a support
structure for the main facility.
[3:14] Uh we do have a right-in right-out uh
access drive off of uh William Penn
[3:20] Highway 22,
uh which you enter the site here,
[3:24] go up and around to the north and then
enter into the queue lanes, which are
[3:28] these two lanes. This is a double
drive-thru.
[3:31] And um as you come down through, we have
employees that actually stand out in
[3:36] these lanes and take orders pretty
similar to a Chick-fil-A facility, the
[3:40] way that that is operated. So, they have
iPads. They will take uh the orders. The
[3:45] orders are relayed into the main
building. The The orders are made and
[3:48] then runners run those out to the
customers in their cars.
[3:53] We are providing a bypass lane around
the outside of the two queue lanes. Uh
[3:57] the whole purpose for that is that if
you've got somebody that's sitting here
[4:01] that's getting an order that's fairly
large and then somebody back in the
[4:04] queue that has one drink order, uh they
can get their order in and get out in
[4:08] the bypass lane and bypass the other
customers that are waiting for their
[4:12] orders.
Uh we currently have this designed for
[4:16] 31 cars in the queue, which is from this
location all the way around to here.
[4:22] Uh
as you can see, if we do have any
[4:25] overload issues, we do have room to
stack cars uh in the drive all the way
[4:29] back out to 22 if necessary.
Uh 31 cars typically will handle the
[4:35] normal business rush that we have. Uh we
have a a peak hour in the morning,
[4:40] typically from uh 6:00 to 8:00, and then
uh in the afternoon is actually the
[4:44] busiest peak that we have, and that
typically runs from 4:00 to 6:00.
[4:48] During those peak hours, uh what we're
seeing once the store is opened and the
[4:52] customer base is established,
uh after we get through the newness of
[4:56] the of the facility, they typically
settle down and we are seeing
[5:00] consistently 28 cars maximum in that
peak hour in the afternoon.
[5:04] Normally throughout the day, uh these
businesses uh these facilities that
[5:09] we're seeing will have seven to eight
cars in the queue. So, we think we've
[5:13] designed uh the site large enough with
enough queue to handle whatever business
[5:18] that we do any any kind of a rush
that we have. Uh along with the 31 cars
[5:23] in the queue lanes, we also have parking
spaces for 17 vehicles.
[5:27] Um one of those being a handicap uh
parking space.
[5:32] This is a 100% drive-thru facility, so
there is no walk-up traffic. We did
[5:36] There is no place to sit down and and
consume your beverage inside the the
[5:40] building.
The parking spaces are for the employees
[5:43] only.
>> I was going to ask that, like who's
[5:46] parking? You have 17 spaces for
employees. How many employees?
[5:49] » Yeah, so typically these it's a little
different the way that the the
[5:53] operations work on these. They have
4-hour shifts.
[5:56] » Okay.
>> whole idea is to have we we hire people
[6:00] between 18 and 24 years old. We want
everybody keyed up and on their game as
[6:04] long as they're there. So the the shifts
are shorter, so everybody is
[6:08] not fatigued at the end of an 8-hour
shift. We make the shift change every 4
[6:12] hours.
So
[6:14] to start
with these
[6:17] once we
when we get started, we typically have
[6:21] eight to 10 people.
>> Mhm.
[6:23] » Employees. Now whenever we have rushes,
we can go up to 22 people that they can
[6:27] call in and and be at the on the
facility at one time.
[6:30] » Mhm.
>> Once we start the facility once we start
[6:33] the operations, we will hire 75 people
to man this this particular stand.
[6:37] » Wow.
>> So we'll have the ability to call in as
[6:40] many as we need if we do see rushes
coming and so on and so forth.
[6:45] So
we've made all the submittals. We're
[6:49] going through the review process now.
We've received a couple review letters
[6:54] and comments. I don't think there's
anything that we can't get over.
[6:57] Everything looks like it's just
basically clean up items at this point.
[7:01] We are using the same traffic engineer
that the car wash is using. So they're
[7:06] handling the HOP permit for us and them
at the same time. I know that they have
[7:11] generated a traffic analysis report and
have submitted that to DOT and that's in
[7:15] review now. So once that is back, then
the HOP will be able to be reviewed and
[7:20] and approved. Don't see any big issues
with that as far as
[7:24] DOT is concerned. We are leaving the
existing entry points where they're at
[7:29] currently.
This was a right-of-way at one point the
[7:33] building that is being demolished.
So we're not changing locations or sizes
[7:37] of our right in right out. And then we
also have the ability to go back out to
[7:41] Center Street into the light for anybody
that is coming in and wants to
[7:46] go back to the east as they leave our
facility.
[7:50] » Is there [clears throat] an actual um
separation like a
[7:54] wall? It just looks like it's green
space the between the car wash and the
[7:59] » It's just green space.
>> It's a green space.
[8:01] » Yes, ma'am.
There is a retaining wall back on the
[8:03] backside. I don't know if you guys have
been to this side or not, but it's
[8:06] fairly steep back on the back. There's a
guardrail that is existing there that we
[8:10] do intend to to leave in place.
Um
[8:15] and then obviously we're we're meeting
all the landscape requirements.
[8:18] Uh we were asked to put in a ADA ramp
from the sidewalk out front on uh
[8:24] on Penn Highway. So that's what this is.
Um I think currently there is a set of
[8:29] stairs there. We'll remove those and
then put this ramp in place. So we've
[8:33] got ADA access to the site.
Which is a requirement by the
[8:38] municipality. We don't anticipate any
people walking up to the building.
[8:41] » going to say if you have no walk-up
That's interesting.
[8:43] » It's just a requirement. We have to do
it. We're
[8:45] we're being forced.
>> [clears throat]
[8:49] » Okay.
>> Uh any any other questions?
[8:52] » What is that building up uh
>> This one?
[8:58] » No, up here.
>> Um
[9:00] » You drive past it on the way in.
>> Is it trash? Looks like trash.
[9:04] » Uh oh, up here on top. Yes, that is a
the trash enclosure and it will have
[9:09] it's a 6-ft tall trash enclosure and the
finish materials on it will match the
[9:13] building.
>> And what's the cooler?
[9:15] » The cooler is just where we store all of
the milk and products that we use for
[9:20] the next drinks.
>> that's a separate building. You have to
[9:22] walk outside.
>> Correct. Yes, sir. There is a canopy
[9:25] structure that goes over part of the
drive-thru and then
[9:29] spans the gap between the building and
the cooler.
[9:32] And
it'll be under cover, but it will you We
[9:35] do have to go outside and get the
support.
[9:38] Did you bring uh
Yes.
[9:42] So, this is what the prototype building
looks like.
[9:47] So,
uh
[9:49] This is the cooler or I'm sorry, this is
the canopy that spans between. This
[9:53] particular one doesn't show the cooler
in the right location. It's actually sit
[9:56] that sits right here.
Um let me see if this other one may
[10:00] show. So, that's the configuration right
there. It's just mirrored from what
[10:03] we're actually doing on this site. So,
this is the cooler building.
[10:06] And it'll it'll actually be on the other
side if you go look back at that uh
[10:11] » And it's that tall. This is the right
height.
[10:13] » That's correct. Yes.
>> So, I guess you're bringing two trucks.
[10:16] » It will actually it will come in three
trucks. So, the main [laughter] part of
[10:20] the building from the canopy down, this
is one one unit that'll come by itself
[10:24] and then this structure here is a
separate structure that is put on top
[10:28] once it arrives on site. And then this
is the cooler building which is on
[10:31] another truck.
>> Okay.
[10:38] » Questions?
[10:42] » Looks good. Any other questions you
guys?
[10:47] All right. I guess we'll take a motion
to approve.
[10:51] » Motion to approve.
>> I'll second.
[10:54] » All in favor?
>> Aye.
[10:56] » Aye.
>> That's for both of them.
[10:57] » Both.
>> Both, yeah.
[10:59] » Yes.
>> Yep.
[11:00] » Thank you very much.
>> Very good. You're welcome.
[11:03] » Thank you.
>> We're on to
[11:05] » to the next.
>> Yeah.
[11:06] » Yeah. Next month, first Tuesday and
second Tuesday. I'll send you an email
[11:09] tomorrow.
>> Sounds great sometimes.
[11:11] » Perfect.
>> Hey, we actually have that information,
[11:14] but an email would be good. Glad to hear
from you.
[11:17] » Thank you very much. Appreciate it.
>> Thank you.
[11:20] Very good.
All right.
[11:22] If anything else, I think we need a
motion to adjourn.
[11:25] » I'll make a motion.
>> I'll second.
[11:28] » All in favor?
>> Aye.
[11:29] » Aye.
>> Meeting adjourned.
[11:33] » And I will
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