A California city is moving to enact a permanent ban on new drive-thru restaurants, spurred on by a group of vocal locals who have organized to oppose a potential new In-N-Out location.
While many other cities (and states) openly court the privately owned, Southern California-founded burger chain in hopes of attracting its business, Culver City isn’t swayed by the scent of animal-style fries and mustard-grilled Double-Doubles. The stand-alone city within Los Angeles County voted on Monday to extend a recently enacted 45-day moratorium on any new drive-thrus for another 10.5 months, giving city officials a long enough runway to draft permanent legislation that will keep drive-thrus out of the city for good.
That legislation, now in the works, will still need to be put through a planning commission hearing and then finalized, approved and enacted before the end of the current moratorium — but for now, it seems as though Culver City’s no-drive-thru plan is only a matter of time…