Drive-thru Exits onto Residential Street
Porky's proposed drive-thru funnels traffic onto residential streets.
Porky's drive-thru exits onto 19th Avenue: a street serving single family homes and small apartments. The site on Central Avenue is adjacent to a single-family home (942 19th Ave NE) and the drive-thru is less than 40 feet from its front door. Other drive-thru restaurants have attempted to direct traffic back to the main commercial street via residential street and have been unsuccessful.
To get back to Central, drivers will need to take a left turn crossing a lane of traffic, stop at traffic lights, and then turn onto Central. Due to the configuration of the drive-thru and the location of the stop light, only 2 cars will be able to wait at the light before the drive-thru will become blocked. Then, the option will be to turn right into the neighborhood.
Porky's plans to slightly angle the exit and post a sign stating left turn only. Similar measures have been unsuccessful at the Quarry shopping center and fast food drive-thrus in south Minneapolis. People will make a move to go the route that provides the least resistance. At Porky's on Central, the easiest move will often be to turn into the neighborhood.
In most towns and cities, drive-thru restaurants are typically found next to main highways (interstates) or in areas that surrounding by commercial areas to insulate neighbors from the traffic. Here, the drive-thru is directly next a single family home and shares a block with other residences.
In the end, Porky's bought the wrong site. They recognize that Central is vibrant and they want to be part of the action. However, they need a bigger lot that is away from residential areas that enters and exits off of a commercial street. A site with 9 parking spaces cannot accommodate the traffic that Porky's will attract.
--Neighbors Against Porky's--
neighborsagainstporkys@gmail.com
posted by Neighbors Against Porky's @ 2:42 PM
2 Comments:
Tell the truth: there isn't one location on Central you'd agree with. Every possible location would be next to a residential street. Every possible location would have the possibility of a car going down a residential road.
Of course, every other business now has that possibility and they've survived that.
So tell the truth - you hate cars and the "culture of cars". That's your real reaston for being opposed to Porky's.
If they ran a light rail thru the drive-thru you'd be all for it.
"Every possible location would have the possibility of a car going down a residential road"
That is not true. With a larger site, they would have enough room to go in and out on Central. Burger King has such a site, with parking, why don't they try to purchase that ugly, poorly maintained, BK site? The current site is too small, it was not zoned for this type of use.
How much is someone paying politicians, who are shilling for this? This is a lot of trouble for another fast food drive in. A nicer McDonalds is all this is.
Can't we get a condo, or redevelop a larger section of the block into something nicer than a drive through?
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