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2 <br /> While staff is requesting comments on each identified option from the BOCC and Planning <br /> Board, staff recommends the Board consider Option Two (2) and adopt comprehensive <br /> development regulations regulating the development of drive-thru facilities that are designed to: <br /> 1. Require additional setbacks, and specific orientation of, land uses utilizing such facilities, <br /> 2. Require additional landscaping along drive-thru access roads to absorb carbon-dioxide <br /> gas emitted from vehicles utilizing the service, <br /> 3. Require that menu boards utilized in connection with drive-thru facilities shall not be <br /> visible from external roadways, <br /> 4. Establish a limit on the overall number of drive-thru facilities that can be developed within <br /> a multi-use non-residential development to encourage mixed use development and <br /> discourage freestanding, out-parcel, land uses with multiple drive-thru facilities, <br /> 5. Reduce the amount of impervious surface area (i.e. parking) allowed/required for such <br /> land uses and require additional internal landscaped area, <br /> 6. Consider establishment of a system that requires annual payments to a carbon offset <br /> program or consider a system allowing for a partial payment in lieu for any required <br /> landscaping in the form of carbon credits. <br /> There have been requests for articles and other information offering context on the <br /> impact of drive-thru facilities. Please refer to Attachment Two (2) for this information. <br /> FINANCIAL IMPACT: This request has been reviewed by various County departments who <br /> have determined the approval of the request will not create the need for additional funding for <br /> the provision of County services. <br /> RECOMMENDATION(S): The Zoning Officer recommends the Board: <br /> 1. Receive the proposed amendment submitted by staff, <br /> 2. Conduct the Public Hearing and accept public comment on the two (2) proposed options, <br /> 3. Suggest a preference for review and further discussion on the proposed options, <br /> 4. Refer the matter to the Planning Board with a request that a recommendation be returned <br /> to the County Board of Commissioners in time for the agenda schedule of the June 2, <br /> 2009 BOCC meeting, and <br /> 5. Adjourn the public hearing until June 2, 2009 in order to receive and accept the Planning <br /> Board's recommendation and any submitted written comments. <br />