No, Westford should not allow drive-thru. As it is with all the development, it is becoming very commercial. This will only increase the traffic from off the highway and make it only worse.

Drive-thrus should be available in town!

YES YES PLEASE!

Mothers with kids, dads in a hurry to grab dinner for the family, teens on crutches, grandma with her walker... These are all people that would benefit from a drive-thru. Not only because they have to get out and walk, but they also have to carry everything out to the car without spilling it (on crutches, with a car seat, etc.). And imagine anyone in a wheelchair, what they have to do to get the wheelchair out of the car, get in the wheelchair, etc. I've been in a wheelchair, I've had the baby in a carrier. I drove out of town to get a coffee or pick up dinner, every time.

Yes....but only for Starbucks.

Yes, they should allow drivethroughs. Pretty much for the same reasons as stated above. Moms with a car full of kids, elderly, folks with disabitities. I really don't believe that it will cause extra trash which was an earlier argument.

Yes!! Its nice for the working guy/gay who has been working on a dirty job at home,or for a living, that needs a quick bite

Sooner or later we won't have to get out of our car for anything. How lazy is this world getting. I slipped coming out of church once, what about drive thru churches and bars!!

The elite upscale Westford of the 90s is so far in the rear view mirror why not, with 2 Market Baskets what's the use, we really are the new-next Billerica

Tax the drive throughs so we can afford to pay our teachers a competitive salary next contract negotiation in a year and retain what we can of our strong school system

No offense Mike. Westford is a nice town, but what I hate is the snobbery involved with calling another town "dumpy". Westford has it's issues as does any town but putting down a neighboring town because it doesn't meet your elite standards is wrong.

" Billerica is a dumpy town" How would you describe the comment

Westford moved to the DCL was partially motivated by the reality it considered CC, LS and AB to be its peers and not Ayer and Chelmsford, let me tell you Westford is more like Chelmsford and Ayer than DCL towns!
Pretentious and Westford go hand and hand

http://sierraclub.typepad.com/mrgreen/2009/02/advice-about-recreational-eating-.html
"What is the global-warming impact of the drive-through? ...In drive-throughs idling is the devil's workshop. Every hour you idle, you waste up to 0.7 gallons of gas... it pays to turn your engine off if you're going to be still for more than 30 seconds...In a given year, U.S. cars burn 1.4 billion gallons of fuel just idling. Collectively, we emit about 58 million tons of carbon dioxide while we're essentially doing nothing. Taking the fast-food industry as an example...the average McDonald's drive-through wait is 159 seconds...the company's consumers burn some 7.25 million gallons of gas each year...the entire U.S. fast-food industry? Roughly 50 million gallons."
If the environment doesn't motivate you, how about the cost of gas wasted while idling?

Girls Gone Sustainable - Your comment is the type of pretentious attitude that pervades this entire area. Why do you think that you know better then anyone else? I agree with you in principle but the reality is these things exist because the majority of people want them. They are not hurting you or anyone else. People are just going to take their business elsewhere where there is a drive through if that is what they need. I know this, because I do! And before you get on your high horse about Westford doesn't need these businesses anyway, remember who pays most of the property taxes in town and that we do need jobs. We all do. Yes, there should be oversight and moderation but the broad stroke statements that you are making don't speak for me or my family. We are not obese, we do get out of the car to go in but there are times when it is very convenient to have a drive through. Also, we eat home cooked food at home at the dinner table every night of the week save one. Where I choose to eat is not the issue here.

Thank you for letting me know what I should and should not do.

I had no idea how I was going to manage myself when I got up this morning.

Due to the lack of the Drive-Thru access, we pretty much bring our fast food restaurant business to the Drum Rotary in Chelmsford, even though the commercial strip in Westford is probably closer to us. It is all a matter of convience when you have to shuffle the kids out and back in the car. Add bad weather, and that just adds to the desire to do the drive-thru. We most likely use more gas and emit more of the resulting fumes from going the extra distance than, if we to idle at the McD in Westford. Would like to support the local tax base via more Westford restaurant visits. BUT... we gotta do what we gotta due to make it through a typical busy day.

I'm with you Steve Germann. Get up, out and walk. Two thirds of Americans are overweight. It's not convenience it's laziness.
Anyone getting off the highway to eat or drink needs to get out of their car and move.
They may spend more while they're here and all of Westford benefits, business, taxes paid to the town, individuals jobs.

i think it is the right thing to do. do it for the elders and disabled

Steve and Cynthia you can watch Mass on the Cathoic Channel and Colonial Spirits in Acton will deliver...All elders, disabled and parents with kids should be locked inside their hospices, wheelchairs and mobile homes forever

We already have drive thru ATMs and bank windows. How is a restaurant different?

Because to the straw hats a bank is not the great satan... McDonalds.