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4 <br />- a. Any non-residential land use utilizing a drive-thru facility, <br />whether as a principal use of property or within a Planned <br />Development or another similar multi-use non-residential or <br />mixed use development, shall not be located within fifty (50) feet <br />' of an exterior property line. This includes the building, kiosk, <br />drive lane for the drive-thru, or parking facilities, <br />b. No menu board utilized as part of a drive-thru shall be visible <br />from an external or internal roadway, <br />c. There shall be a minimum twenty-five (25) foot vegetative strip <br />planted along the length of the roadway utilized by the drive-thru <br />facility including any and- all applicable stacking lanes. This strip <br />shall be planted with sufficient .vegetation to form a dense, <br />opaque, buffer planted to the following standard: <br />There shall be a continuous evergreen hedge planted <br />along the interior curb of .the drive-thru lane that will <br />have an initial planting height of thirty-six (36) inches <br />and achieve a height of at least five (5) feet at <br />maturity, <br />There shall be a second row of plantings behind the <br />continuous hedge line comprised of deciduous and <br />evergreen trees that will have an initial planting height <br />of five (5) feet with spacing at 20 feet on center and <br />achieve a height of at least twenty (20) feet at <br />maturity. <br />d. A minimum stacking distance of 180 feet shall be provided to <br />each pick-up window or automated machine. <br />e. A facility with a separate ordering point and pick-up window <br />shall provide stacking space for at-least 4 vehicles in advance of <br />each ordering point and stacking space for at least 4 vehicles <br />between each ordering point and pick-up window. <br />f. Entrances to drive-up lanes shall be at least 25 feet from <br />driveways entering a public or private street or alley. <br />g. The minimum width of each drive-through lane shall be 11 feet. <br />The entrance to the lane and the direction of traffic flow shall be <br />clearly designated by signs -and pavement marking or raised <br />curbs. <br />h. A solid six-foot high masonry sound wall shall be constructed on <br />the property boundary when, the site is contiguous to <br />residentially zoned or used,. property (s). If the site is separated <br />within a larger non-residentiallmixed use zone by an intervening <br />one acre or more site plan with building, then the wall and or <br />restriction on hours of operation are not required. <br />