The Aberdeen City Council on Monday approved the preliminary site plan and revised final subdivision plat for the expansion of a Chick-fil-A drive-thru from one to two lanes.

The fast food chain at 1001 Beards Hill Road will also feature an additional 2,000-square-foot canopy that’ll be added to the pickup area.

According to a representative involved with the project, the additional lane is not expected to produce more traffic, but rather to get the existing traffic it has through faster.

The Chick-fil-A location shares some parking spaces with the Holiday Inn Express next door. The spaces along the current drive-thru will be removed to accommodate the new lane. Additionally, 0.12 acres from the hotel will be moved over to the restaurant to provide enough space for the lane.

Within the same shopping center are restaurants including The Olive Tree, Casa Bistro and The Greene Turtle Sports Bar & Grille. An additional 506 spaces will be created following the modifications to Chick-fil-A.

The inclusion of the lane is to retrofit the location to match other Chick-fil-A locations that already have the two-lane layout.

The plan approval states that Chick-fil-A owns the 0.12-acre property it acquired from the hotel, while the site plan gives planning approval to do the project.

With these approvals, the restaurant can proceed to construction.

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