Planning Commission reiterates Drive-thru denial for BoE next user

The Evansville Planning Commission met in special session at 6:30PM Tuesday night and one of the items on the agenda was a motion by the purchaser of the old Bank of Evansville to reconsider the planning commission recent denial of a conditional use for a drive thru at the old location.

The applicant offered to put up mirrors and signs, but did not offer to reverse the traffic through the drive thru. The commission split 3-3 on the motion to reconsider and that ended it. In general, the feeling was that they preferred to end any unsafe drive thru uses in the downtown period, and in doing so was consistent with their handling of the recent request by the pharmacy for a drive thru.