§ 4-2-18 Drive-Through Restaurants.
All Drive-Through Restaurants shall comply with the following requirements:
A. A combined total of at least six (6) stacking spaces from the drive through entry to the first stop (i.e. menu/order board) shall be provided in one (1) or more drive-through lanes and each drive-through lane shall have at least four (4) stacking spaces from the menu board to the first product pick-up window. Stacking spaces shall be a minimum of twenty (20) feet in length. The Development Services Director, or his/her designee, may consider a reduction of the required stacking upon submittal and approval of a queuing analysis signed and sealed by a professional traffic engineer.
B. Each drive-through lane shall have a minimum width of twelve (12) feet and a minimum interior turning radius of twenty-five (25) feet.
C. Waiting vehicles in drive-through lanes shall not:
1. Block parking stalls;
2. Block fire lanes;
3. Impede emergency access;
4. Interfere with the movement of traffic (on or off-site); or
5. Interfere with the movement of pedestrians (on or off-site).
D. Drive-Through Restaurants shall provide safe, unimpeded movement of vehicles at street access points, in drive-through aisles, and in parking areas.
E. Speakers at Drive-Through Restaurants shall not be audible from residentially zoned property. Sound shall be mitigated using sound attenuation walls, landscaping, or other measures acceptable to the Zoning Administrator or designee.
F. Drive-through lanes shall be screened from public and private streets, internal drive-aisles, interior ingress/egress driveways, off-site public parks, plazas, and sidewalks, and residential uses. Screening shall be by one (1) of the following, except as noted herein:
1. A decorative opaque wall or fence constructed at a minimum height of three (3) feet and a maximum height of four (4) feet as measured from the adjacent grade. Solid walls shall be required along all public and private streets.
2. A continuous non-deciduous landscape hedge maintained at a minimum height of three (3) feet.
3. A combination of an opaque wall or fence and a non-deciduous landscape hedge.
G. A planted landscape area of not less than three (3) feet in width shall be provided on each side of each drive-through screen wall or fence.
H. A solid canopy shall cover a length not less than one (1) car length (at least twenty (20) feet) over the pick-up window and the portion of the drive-through facility located adjacent to the pick-up window. When the pick-up window faces a public or private street, then the solid canopy shall cover a length of at least thirty (30) feet over the pick-up window and the portion of the drive-through facility located adjacent to the pick-up window.
I. Drive-through lanes may have full or partial canopies at the order box.
J. Drive-Through Restaurants that utilize exterior employees as the point of order shall provide safe walkways for the employees adjacent to each vehicular drive-through lane. (Ord. 22-1534, passed 6-27-22)