The Dunkin' near the Route 208 interchange at 1063 Goffle Road has Planning Board site-plan approval on the books.
A notice of actions records that the Planning Board approved a resolution granting preliminary and final site plan approval for Sharon Donuts Inc.'s property at that address, Block 252, Lot 4.01. The resolution memorialized what the board did at its January 20 meeting.
What The Notice Records
The posted language is specific and a little dry. It grants the application for preliminary and final site plan approval and ties that grant to the January 20 action. It names the applicant, the street address, and the tax lot.
The application concerns the property at the same address as the Dunkin'.
Coffee Lanes, As Reported In 2020
Hawthorne did not open drive-throughs to every restaurant counter. NorthJersey.com reported in March 2020 that a new ordinance permitted drive-through lanes only for local restaurants that primarily serve coffee and other drinks.
That account said the rules allowed 12-foot-wide lanes in the business zone. A property owner still had to apply to the Planning Board. The window, the report said, could be open only from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Those limits are what the 2020 news report described. They explain the category Hawthorne carved out: a drink-focused counter, not a general fast-food lane, and only after the Planning Board looked at the site.
The Other Goffle Road Idea
The ordinance had a local prompt, and it was not this parcel. Mayor Richard Goldberg told NorthJersey.com that a coffee shop owner had come forward with a plan for a new Dunkin', drive-through included, on his property at 84 Goffle Road.
Same road, different lot. The 2026 approval sits at 1063 Goffle Road. The proposal Goldberg described was the one that pushed Hawthorne to write a rule at all.
NorthJersey.com also reported that the ordinance limited drive-throughs to qualifying businesses.
Where 1063 Goffle Stands
The January 20 action and the February 17 resolution are the site-plan step on record for Sharon Donuts Inc. at Block 252, Lot 4.01. The shop at that address is the Dunkin' near the Route 208 interchange.
What the 2020 reporting supplies is the older framework around that kind of lane: a coffee-and-drinks business, a Planning Board application, a 12-foot lane in the business zone, and a window limited to 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. The address that started the conversation was 84 Goffle Road. The address with the 2026 site-plan approval is 1063.
