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Glendale directs new conditional‑use process for largest drive‑throughs, orders city‑selected traffic analyses
Summary
After weeks of public comment and staff study, the Glendale City Council voted to require conditional‑use permits for high‑trip drive‑throughs and to direct staff to draft updated development standards and queuing requirements for other drive‑throughs.
The Glendale City Council on Tuesday directed staff to create a hybrid approval process that will require conditional‑use permits for high‑trip drive‑through restaurants and formal development standards for lower‑impact locations.
The council voted to have staff return with revised development standards, a conditional‑use permit (CUP) process for the highest‑traffic drive‑throughs (tier 3 and tier 4 in the consultant’s proposal), and new queuing‑analysis requirements. Council members also directed staff to study minimum setback distances from freeway on‑ and off‑ramps, and other sensitive uses, and to prevent queuing that spills onto public streets. The city will select the traffic consultant that performs any supplemental queuing/traffic analyses used to evaluate future applications.
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