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McKinney staff brief council on drive-through regulations; council asks staff to return with options
Summary
Planning staff reviewed zoning rules for restaurants with drive-throughs, noting recent growth of drive-through sites and existing buffers and criteria; council asked staff to return with options on buffers, effective dates and whether more uses should require specific-use permits.
Jennifer Arnold, the city—s director of planning, gave council an informational update on how McKinney—s Unified Development Code regulates restaurants with drive-throughs and compared McKinney—s rules to nearby cities.
Arnold said the city classifies restaurants by type (for example, dine-in, carry-out, drive-through) and that zoning districts (C1, C2, C3, O2, I1/I2, MTC/downtown) treat drive-throughs differently. She said the 2022 Unified Development Code largely carried over prior use allowances but added or tightened criteria in some places; for example, O2 (office 2) is no longer permitted for drive-through restaurants under the UDC.
Arnold summarized several location- and design-based criteria in McKinney: in the C1 (neighborhood commercial) district a drive-through is allowed only with a specific-use…
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