Originally Posted by
cordelli
Traffic concerns.
Not just food places, but cleaners and drug stores for example get denied because the planners feel they are in a "mixed use" area, where foot traffic is important, and a drive thru does not promote that.
Increased noise to the neighbors, things like that.
Cases have gone as far as state supreme courts when they were denied (Dunkin doughnuts against the town of Hempstead NY for example)
Interesting. It's always something. We only have the occasional McDonalds and Burger King over here in my part of rural Germany and the only reason we go is to get the kids happy meals. Lack of drive thru would keep us away. I can imagine the franchises would be severely torqued.