ST. CHARLES – A St. Charles City Council committee on Monday will review an updated proposal for a Dunkin' Donuts on the city's east side.
The Planning and Development Committee will review Kolbrook Design’s application for a drive-thru facility for Dunkin’ Donuts in the Tin Cup Pass shopping center at 1566 E. Main St. in St. Charles.
The doughnut store would occupy the currently vacant space on the west end of the eastern Tin Cup Pass building, according to the city’s executive summary of the drive-thru request. The drive-thru window would face west on the end of the building, and customers would enter a drive-thru lane that would start on the north side of the building.
The Plan Commission on Jan. 20 held a public hearing for the special use drive-thru request. Commission members that night voted 7-0 to recommend approval of the project to the Planning and Development Committee. Commission members James Holderfield and Tom Schuetz were absent during the vote. If approved, the proposed Dunkin' Donuts would be the city's third location of the franchise and the first on the east side. The other St. Charles Dunkin' Donuts locations are at 1711 W. Main St. and 2057 Lincoln Highway, which opened in September.
Karim Khoja and Tom Thiem are the franchisee partners for the Lincoln Highway location and the proposed east-side location. Khoja told the Plan Commission in 2014 that Tin Cup Pass was one of the sites being considered for a Dunkin’ Donuts location.
An earlier plan to have the east-side Dunkin' Donuts location at the former site of a Qdoba restaurant – 2701 E. Main St. – drew criticism in May from St. Charles resident Carol Bayer and Dennis Alf, owner of the Toyota dealership next door.
The Planning and Development Committee’s meeting begins at 7 p.m. Monday in the City Council Chambers at the St. Charles Municipal Building, 2 E. Main St., St. Charles.