The Kroger grocery store on North Glynn Street in Fayetteville received approval July 26 from the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission to install a fuel center in the area of the parking lot area near Taco Bell and Popeye’s.
Kroger will install a 785 square-foot kiosk building at its Banks Crossing store. The fuel center will include six pump islands with six double-sided fuel dispensers, according to development plans.
The station will be situated in an area of the parking lot between the Taco Bell restaurant to the south and Popeye’s restaurant to the north.
The existing parking at the planned center includes 1,096 spaces. As part of the development process originally submitted, the project initially called for omitting 11 parking spaces from the site but, as approved, now includes the removal of 20 parking spaces. Concerns by commissioners at the July work session over traffic flow conditions led to a revamping of the development plans that now includes the installation of small, landscaped islands and additional landscaping around the perimeter.
Approved plans also require the construction of a larger, traffic-calming landscaped island that will intersect with the often-used access drive off Banks Road that enters the shopping center behind Taco Bell. The island will be positioned perpendicular to the access drive as a means of controlling the flow of traffic.
Prohibiting vehicles from continuing through the center of the parking lot, the large island will require vehicles to turn in the direction of the grocery store or toward the fuel center.
