What, do they just not like chicken joints. Two times in a row council has slapped down requests for drive-thru lanes for fast food restaurants. The last was a bit of a bitch-slap as the anti-drive-thru folks threw up a bunch of hurdles all of which the applicant cleared.
And then the answer was still no.
Everyone knows the mayor has always had it in for drive-thru lanes, and god only knows what she thinks of Chipotle's digital pick-up lane as without an ordering box it is technically not a drive-thru. We also have an ice cream lovin' bicycle nazi on council so there we have two hard "noes" to any drive-thru and two unshakable "yesses" to paving intestate lanes in your front yard.
These folks are dictators, pure and simple. They don't care what you want, what your preferences are, because in their world it only matters what they think is "right." They're going to do what they want to and frankly, screw you.
And that's what will make this a drive-thru city, with the irony being folks are going to drive-thru on their way to convenience, which happens to be a Raising Cane's or a Zaxby's, with a drive-thru.