Dacula Council Unanimously Approves Rezoning Request, Citizens Voice Opposition

Even though she does not live within the city limits of Dacula, Alice O'Lenick said the construction of a drive-through cafe on the Great Beginnings campus on Harbins Road will have a negative impact on her since she lives nearby and drives through the area each day.

"This is a neighborhood of just residential and agricultural areas," O'Lenick said. "There's no retail area except for Texaco anywhere close to this and then, all of a sudden, in the middle of a neighborhood, you're going to put a drive-through cafe."

Lloyd DeLatour, owner of Great Beginnings daycare on Harbins Road, applied to have part of his property rezoned from O-I (office institutional district) to C-1 (neighborhood commercial district) to allow for the construction of a drive-through cafe primarily geared toward serving breakfast to the 540 people who bring their children to Great Beginnings on their way to work and lunch for the 65 people employed by the daycare. 

O'Lenick said the cafe will be out of place in the area.

"It doesn't fit," she explained. "You drive down Harbins Road -- there are cows, there are old family farms, there are just residential homes, there are subdivisions with just normal everyday families ... there's nothing else on Harbins Road that would say it's a retail area."

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