The distinctive — if perhaps impractical — domes that composed a small business park in East Long Beach are due to be replaced by a drive-thru Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf store.

Long Beach’s Planning Commission approved plans to make the change during its Thursday night meeting. Commissioners gave their unanimous support for the conditional use permit necessary for the new cafe, while also requiring restricted early morning and late night drive-thru hours in consideration of nearby residents.

George Younan, a co-owner of the property at 5865 E. Spring St., suggested at Thursday’s meeting that the buildings’ interesting form was problematic in the context of running a functioning business.

That said, the decision was made to switch from providing office space to finding an operator dealing in caffeine.

We “wanted coffee from the get go,” Younan said.

Plans approved Thursday call for the construction of a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf store with more than 1,800 square feet of space and 25 parking places.

Although the proposal put before commissioners would have allowed the cafe’s drive-thru to open between the hours of 4 a.m. and midnight, commissioners shortened that time frame to the hours of 5 a.m. to 10 p.m.

The geodesic dome-style buildings at the project site went up in 1983, according to a staff report.

The only business currently operating at the site is Dome Center Chiropractic. Office manager Carole Lee said the business’s Dr. Kenneth Lee and herself are planning on moving to new offices across Los Coyotes Diagonal at 5935 E. Spring St.

The move may be completed by Oct. 3, she said. The company’s name will change to Lee Chiropractic after the move.

Family Floors, another enterprise that had done business inside one of the three domes, has already moved its Long Beach operations to 6447 E. Spring St.

The third business at the domes is Liberty Tax Services. The company could not be reached immediately for comment Friday.