(A) Off-sale liquor. The business shall have a current license in compliance with state standards for off-sale liquor.
(B) Drive-through or drive-in businesses.
(1) Drive-through facilities and stacking areas shall not be within 100 feet of any parcel that is zoned residential, or has an occupied institutional building, including but not limited to schools, religious institutions and community centers unless the entire facility and stacking areas are separated from said parcel by a building wall.
(2) Drive-through facilities and stacking areas shall be designed to meet the following:
(a) Located where they will not interfere with parking spaces, aisles, loading areas, through traffic, vehicle or pedestrian circulation, or driveway access;
(b) Allow drivers not using the drive-through, or wishing to exit the drive-through area, to bypass the drive-through lane(s);
(c) Drive-through windows, drop boxes, menu boards, and associated or similar structures shall be located to the rear or side of the principal building, and must incorporate landscape screening, decorative fences, walls, or a combination of these elements to minimize their view from the street;
(d) Only one lane shall be provided for queuing; where feasibly this lane shall be a minimum of three stacking spaces leading to the menu or other first point of contact;
(e) Queuing areas shall be designed so that queues will not block or intersect the sidewalk or road right-of-way;
(f) Curb-cut entrances for queuing driveways and exit driveways shall be consolidated with any other driveway entrances or exits on the site;
(g) Curb-cut entrances to the site shall be located so that access can be provided without generating significant traffic on local residential streets;
(h) Drive-through lanes should not interfere with building entrances;
(i) Pedestrian access shall be provided from each abutting street to the primary entrance with a continuous four-foot wide sidewalk or delineated walkway. Pedestrian walkways should not intersect the drive-through drive aisles, but where they do the walkways shall have clear visibility and shall be delineated by textured and colored paving.
(3) All drive-through lanes shall be clearly identified using striping, landscaping, and/or signs.
(4) Adequate area shall be designated for snow storage such that clear visibility shall be maintained from the property to any public street.
(5) Any canopy as part of this use shall be compatible with the architectural design and materials of the principal structure.
(6) Where feasible, drive-through windows, drop boxes, menu boards, and associated or similar structures should be located to the rear or side of the principal building, and must incorporate landscape screening, decorative fences, walls, or a combination of these elements to minimize their view from the street.
(7) All new lighting must be LED, fully shielded, be no brighter than needed for the task, and shine only where it is needed. Lights should have a correlated color temperature (CCT) of 3,000 Kelvin or lower, and dim or turn off at 11:00 p.m. or one hour after close of business, whichever is later. Existing lighting should be retrofitted or replaced to meet these standards.
(8) Menu boards must be no brighter than needed for the task, be lit with LED lights of a CCT no higher than 5,000 Kelvin (ideally 4,000 Kelvin or lower), and be turned off when the drive-through closes.
(9) Any associated speaker system shall emit no more than 50 decibels and at no time shall any speaker system be audible above daytime ambient noise levels beyond the property lines of the site. The system shall be designed to compensate for ambient noise levels in the immediate area.
(10) When a drive-through facility is adjacent to a residential use, the additional following shall apply:
(a) Fencing, screening, berming, or a combination thereof at least three feet in height shall be installed between drive-through facilities, including stacking areas, and adjacent residential uses to block direct lighting from headlights.
(b) A lighting plan shall be required showing the proposed lighting of the site. The illumination measurement at the property lot line adjacent to a residential use may not exceed 0.30 footcandles.
(Ord. 879, passed 10-28-2020; Ord. 1.2-2021, passed 2-10-2021)