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Special Use Permit for a Drive-Through Service Window and Restaurant with Outdoor Seating - Qargo Coffee
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Project: Special Use Permit for a Drive-Through Service Window and Restaurant with Outdoor Seating - Qargo Coffee
Case Number: 2026-0151
Petitioner: Moiz Hussain (owner)
Project Representative: Moiz Hussain (owner)
Address: 11359 159th Street
P.I.N.: 27-19-201-025-0000
Parcel Size: ~1.12 acres
Tenant size: ~1,700 sf
Requested Action: The Petitioner seeks approval to operate a restaurant with outdoor seating and a drive-through service window. The business is already operating on the site without the Special Uses and seeks to add them to their established business. Improvements to the site will include a new landscaping plan which meets current Village code requirements and use of the existing drive through infrastructure which currently is dormant.
BACKGROUND
In 2007 (Case No. 2006-0243), a Site Plan and Special Use Permit was approved for three retail buildings on two lots. Specifically, Lot one would contain a 2,800 SF coffee shop and a 4,980 SF square foot retail building in an outlot of Caputo’s Plaza (formerly Bobak’s Plaza). The site plan was amended later that year (Case No. 2007-0539) through a proposal by Starbucks to occupy the approved coffee shop with a drive-through. The proposal swapped locations of the approved buildings to front the coffee shop along 159th Street and add a drive-through lane. 10 parking spaces were eliminated from the site plan to accommodate a drive-through and an additional dumpster. An outdoor seating area was also installed in the front of the Starbucks building. Starbucks’ proposal was approved and quickly followed by an amended Landscape Plan for the site (Case No. 2007-0199) which exceeded the minimum code requirements and was approved.
Starbucks vacated the site in 2020 and the site has remained vacant until the Petitioner obtained a Certificate of Occupancy for a restaurant in early 2026. Per the L...
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