Plainfield, IL
Project Name: The Dunkin Donut Project
Location: Directly south of the existing Walgreens at the corner of Main Street + Division Street
Proposed By: Lee Fry Companies, Inc.
Date Submitted: May 12, 2014
Status: To be presented at the Plan Commission on May 20, 2014 at 7pm (Village Hall - 24401 West Lockport Street, Plainfield, Illinois).
Let us know what you think about this proposed project.
Comments
The versions may be updated, but it does not change the fact that we DO NOT need yet another DD in town. There are many others just up and down RT 59.
Building a Dunkin Donut on this site is like squeezing a 10lb sausage into a 5lb casing! From the beginning this has been met with a lot of resistance. Obviously this location is not a good idea!
Once again, these sketches are extremely misleading. I urge everyone to 'click' on each of the 'new' version of the sketches. The most cars shown in the entire parking lot, in any sketch, is four! There is only one car shown in the Drive-Thru of this sketch. If this proposed development is approved, we will never see these minimal amounts of cars.
A Vision for Division
The Dunkin Donut Project: South Facing Elevation (Version 2)
Plainfield, IL
Description:
Project Name: The Dunkin Donut Project
Location: Directly south of the existing Walgreens at the corner of Main Street + Division Street
Proposed By: Lee Fry Companies, Inc.
Date Submitted: May 12, 2014
Status: To be presented at the Plan Commission on May 20, 2014 at 7pm (Village Hall - 24401 West Lockport Street, Plainfield, Illinois).
Let us know what you think about this proposed project.
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The site is already too congested. I work for a west suburban municipality with similar physical characteristics of Plainfield. Numerous proposals for Dunkin' Donuts and other franchise drive-thru features have been rejected on larger sites but without additional stores attached. Entire websites are dedicated to the "untruthfulness" of the Dunkin' Donuts "6 lane stacking is all that is required" myth. I have stopped several days at the North Plainfield store and every parking space is filled, the drive-up line wraps completely around the building and spills out into the vacant Staples parking lot. While I was waiting for a person to pull out of a parking spaces I was repeatedly honked at and "flipped off" by the drivers having to wait behind me. So, how can this site support this high density development logically and physically? If the traffic backs-up on the site, it will result in the other two spaces remaining vacant for lack of access. If the traffic spills into the horrendously-engineered Walgreens lot, then that hurts that business. If the traffic spills out on to Route 59 or any of the side streets, then it further impedes the flow of traffic in a congested area already.
Aside form the physical layout and tight site plan, the new design follows Plainfield's long-held belief that adding a few gables, an arched opening or two, and more brick somehow creates better architecture...that is like trying to make the proverbial "silk purse out of a sow's ear." This is a tough site...created by poor planning at the onset...how long do we have to live with the continued pattern of poor development decisions in Plainfield?
The versions may be updated, but it does not change the fact that we DO NOT need yet another DD in town. There are many others just up and down RT 59.
Building a Dunkin Donut on this site is like squeezing a 10lb sausage into a 5lb casing! From the beginning this has been met with a lot of resistance. Obviously this location is not a good idea!
Once again, these sketches are extremely misleading. I urge everyone to 'click' on each of the 'new' version of the sketches. The most cars shown in the entire parking lot, in any sketch, is four! There is only one car shown in the Drive-Thru of this sketch. If this proposed development is approved, we will never see these minimal amounts of cars.
The site is already too congested. I work for a west suburban municipality with similar physical characteristics of Plainfield. Numerous proposals for Dunkin' Donuts and other franchise drive-thru features have been rejected on larger sites but without additional stores attached. Entire websites are dedicated to the "untruthfulness" of the Dunkin' Donuts "6 lane stacking is all that is required" myth. I have stopped several days at the North Plainfield store and every parking space is filled, the drive-up line wraps completely around the building and spills out into the vacant Staples parking lot. While I was waiting for a person to pull out of a parking spaces I was repeatedly honked at and "flipped off" by the drivers having to wait behind me. So, how can this site support this high density development logically and physically? If the traffic backs-up on the site, it will result in the other two spaces remaining vacant for lack of access. If the traffic spills into the horrendously-engineered Walgreens lot, then that hurts that business. If the traffic spills out on to Route 59 or any of the side streets, then it further impedes the flow of traffic in a congested area already.
Aside form the physical layout and tight site plan, the new design follows Plainfield's long-held belief that adding a few gables, an arched opening or two, and more brick somehow creates better architecture...that is like trying to make the proverbial "silk purse out of a sow's ear." This is a tough site...created by poor planning at the onset...how long do we have to live with the continued pattern of poor development decisions in Plainfield?