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Council reviews zoning text amendments to clarify drive‑through rules near university
Summary
City planning staff presented text amendments to the zoning code that would clarify where drive‑through restaurants can locate in the University Commercial district and along Fifteenth Street; council members pressed staff on vehicle stacking and traffic mitigation, and staff said they are coordinating with ALDOT and individual businesses.
City planning staff presented proposed zoning text amendments to clarify where drive‑through restaurants are allowed in the University Commercial district and along Fifteenth Street, prompting council discussion about vehicle stacking, pedestrian safety and traffic control.
The amendments would re‑establish drive‑throughs as permissible uses in specified University Commercial areas that the framework update had made nonconforming, and add Fifteenth Street as a corridor where drive‑throughs would be…
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