Plans for a Dewey’s Pizza restaurant on North Main Street, which the Cincinnati-based company has sought for two years, are finally moving forward.

The Centerville Planning Commission will consider zoning variances affecting parking and paving setback at a Jan 29 public hearing and are likely to vote on whether to approve the plat on Feb. 26.

The city’s Board of Architectural Review is scheduled to rule on the site plan, including the architect’s design, on Feb. 5.

“There are no guarantees, but it looks like it could be good to go,” city planner Steve Feverston said. “It’s like good gumbo. It’s takes a while to come together.”

The company has submitted a development plan that calls for demolition of the remaining vacant home on a site where two other houses have been demolished.

The plan includes on-site parking, with motorist and pedestrian connections to adjacent properties, city officials said.

Washington Twp., which owns Town Hall south of the site, signed off on the plan last week. The township and the city share a parking lot that extends behind businesses on West Franklin Street.

Voicing safety concerns, the township has opposed allowing vehicle access that would link the Town Hall lot with the Dewey’s location.

Trustees have agreed to allow construction of a pedestrian walkway from behind Town Hall to the new business and a 50- by 25-foot public plaza straddling the Dewey’s and township properties.

The design for Dewey’s shows a limestone building with a faux second floor.

City manager Greg Horn said it would provide 40 additional parking spaces, improve motorists’ access and upgrade storm water drainage for the area. “It builds upon the momentum we have encouraged over the past decade in our historic district.”

Feverston said the 7:30 p.m. Jan 29 Planning Commission meeting also will include an application for construction of a new McDonald’s restaurant on the site of the current Talegators at 6270 Far Hills Ave. The new McDonald’s would replace the one at 6004 Far Hills.

A new education center for the Centerville-Washington Park District on Centerville Station Road also will be considered at the meeting.