Walnut Creek council rejects Amy’s Drive-Thru vegetarian restaurant; increase traffic cited

Saying that it was the right project in the wrong place, Walnut Creek City Council members in the wee hours of Wednesday rejected plans for an Amy’s Drive-Thru vegetarian restaurant, more than two years after it was first proposed.

At issue specifically was the restaurant’s drive-up window, and the traffic some believe it would create near the intersection of North Main Street and Second Avenue, on the city’s north end. It’s an area many residents say is already a traffic problem, thanks in part to another restaurant drive-through window.