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Key Points:

• Culver City, California, is moving to enact a permanent ban on new drive-thru restaurants, extending a current 45-day moratorium by another 10.5 months to draft long-term legislation.
• The push for the ban was sparked by local opposition to a proposed In-N-Out Burger location with a drive-thru, citing concerns over traffic congestion, air quality, and public health impacts such as increased rates of heart disease and diabetes.
• Culver City's vice mayor, Bubba Fish, emphasizes that the ban targets drive-thrus in dense urban areas to improve public health and street safety, not the restaurants themselves, advocating for drive-thrus to be limited to freeway or highway-adjacent locations.
• In-N-Out has not obtained permits for the proposed Culver City site, and while the chain typically includes drive-thrus, it does have some locations without them; Culver City has not permitted new drive-thrus since 1997.
• Other California cities, including Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Santa Monica, have also implemented measures to restrict or ban new drive-thru restaurants to address similar environmental and traffic concerns.