Are Drive-Through Facilities a Service of the Past? - Winter 2003

 Bankers will tell you that their  customers demand drive-through banking facilities; dry cleaners concur.  New city zoning code changes will severely restrict drive-through facilities in the city.  Only financial institutions may have a drive-through in the downtown and only on “secondary grid” streets.  The new zoning codes — OND, OCD, ORD and SMH — that replace OPB, OPB-1, OP and MCI specifically prohibit drive-through facilities.  How will the market react?  Stay tuned.