Council considers ban on downtown drive-thrus
Posted Sep 21, 2011 06:10:06 AM.
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Regional council is considering banning drive-thrus in downtown Halifax.
A motion presented to council for first reading Tuesday night states drive-thrus are convenient for service delivery, but not appropriate in a “denser, more compact urban context.”
Coun. Dawn Sloane (Halifax-Downtown) tells News 95.7 she supports the idea.
“We don’t need them,” she said. “We’re trying to make a walkable community, and drive-thrus are really not part of that situation.”
Sloane says any existing drive-thrus would be grandfathered in under the amendment to the Municipal Land Use bylaw.
The motion would likely have to go to a public hearing before being passed.
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