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OR D - dOO9 -,1.4 4 <br />STAFF OPTION TWO (2): REGULATION: <br />Amend Article Six (6) Application of Dimensional Requirements as follows: <br />Section 6.9 Accessory Uses for non-residential developments — Drive-thru facilities <br />regulations: <br />1. Definition <br />a. Drive-through business (land use). An establishment that sells <br />products or provides services to occupants in vehicles, <br />including drive-in or drive-up windows and drive-through <br />services. <br />i. Drive-through businesses, non-restaurants - A drive-through <br />business that serves a use not related to a restaurant, fast <br />food restaurant or formula fast food restaurant. This use <br />includes the operation of drive-up or a drive-up or a drive- <br />through service at a bank or financial institution, food sales <br />(for off site preparation or consumption only), personal <br />services, and retail sales (e.g., pharmacy). <br />ii. Drive-through business, restaurants — A drive-through <br />business that operates in conjunction with a restaurant, fast <br />food restaurant or formula fast food restaurant. <br />2. Any and all accessory uses necessary for the operation of a proposed <br />non-residential or mixed use development shall not be erected in any <br />required open space and shall conform to all other applicable <br />regulations contained within this Ordinance, <br />3. In addition to any and all applicable Federal, State, or local <br />requirements, the following specific standards shall govern the <br />development and use of drive-thru facilities for the Project: <br />a. Any non-residential land use utilizing a 'drive4hru 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. This can be achieved via <br />the planting of a vegetative screen, <br />c. There shall be a minimum twenty-five (25) foot wide vegetative <br />strip planted along the length of the roadway utilized by the <br />drive-thru facility including any and all applicable stacking lanes. <br />This strip shall be planted with sufficient vegetation to form a <br />dense, opaque, buffer planted to the following standard: <br />i. 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 />