Dave Kelleher of David Dodge is acting on his announcement of April 2023 to open a detailing shop and training center in Concord Township. His plan also calls for a car wash; for that, he needs a conditional use hearing.
The shop and car wash would be on a 5.32-acre site at 830 Conchester Highway, across from Evergreen Drive.
Kelleher already received zoning clearance for the detailing shop in October when Concord’s Zoning Hearing Board granted a special exception for the use in the C-2 Zoning District. The conditional use hearing for the carwash began Wednesday night.
Attorney Lou Colagreco said Kelleher could not attend the session because he was under the weather, so architect Bob Linn became the lead witness.
Linn said an existing but vacated home on the site would be demolished, and two new structures — the detail shop and car wash — would be erected.
The shop would be at the rear of the property and have two stories. The lower level would be 27,600 square feet and have 23 service bays, while the upper level would be 7,700 square feet with offices and a training center.
Linn also said the car wash is planned to be 34,000 square feet toward the front of the site and have a 12-car queue-up lane between the carwash and the dealership building.
“That queue-up lane in no way impacts or impedes site circulation,” he said.
He added that the carwash would be “old fashioned” in that attendants would vacuum and hand dry cars, so customers would not need to do that themselves. Lin said the carwash is modeled after the one at 931 W. Lancaster Avenue in Bryn Mawr.
The car wash would be open to the public, but the detail shop would use it also since there would be no car wash station in the detailing area.
Linn testified that the pervious and impervious coverages are well within the township code.
Code allows for 35 percent building coverage, but Linn said the plan calls for only 13.4 percent. He also said that while the code allows for 70 percent impervious, the plan calls for 53.1 percent.
Parking is also ample and exceeds township requirements, Linn said. The code requires 88 spaces but, Linn said, there are 126 parking spaces available.
The hearing didn’t conclude Wednesday. It’s been continued to a date yet to be determined. When it does resume, Linn is expected to respond to questions from council members and the public, and then traffic engineer Al Federico is scheduled to testify.
About Rich Schwartzman
Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.
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