§ 21-129. Standards for drive-through facilities.

All facilities providing drive-through service shall provide on-site stacking lanes in accordance with the following standards:

(a)

The facilities and queuing lanes shall be located and designed to minimize turning movements in relation to driveway access to streets and intersections.

(b)

The facilities and stacking lanes shall be located and designed to avoid conflicts between vehicular traffic and pedestrian areas such as sidewalks, crosswalks, or other pedestrian access ways.

(c)

A bypass lane shall be provided.

(d)

Minimum stacking lane length, which is measured beginning at the service window, shall be as follows:

(1)

Financial institutions shall have a minimum length of two hundred (200) feet. Two (2) or more stacking lanes may be provided that together total two hundred (200) feet.

(2)

All other uses shall have a minimum length of one hundred twenty (120) feet.

(e)

Alleys or driveways in or abutting areas designed, approved, or developed for residential use shall not be used for circulation of traffic for drive-through facilities.

(f)

Where turns are required in the exit lane, the minimum distance from any drive-through station to the beginning point of the curve shall be thirty-four (34) feet. The minimum inside turning radius shall be twenty (25) feet.

(g)

Construction of stacking lanes shall conform to all engineering design standards adopted by the City of Winter Haven.

(Ord. No. O-00-09, Art. 3 (3.02.09), 4-24-00)