Restaurants

Drive-thru permit denied for proposed Swig soda shop in Phoenix

Drive-thru customers are served at the Peoria Swig, 8320 W. Cactus Road, which opened in January. The Utah-based soda shop planned to open a location at Seventh Avenue and Bethany Home Road in Phoenix but was denied for a special-use permit to allow for a drive-thru.

(Courtesy Swig)

Plans for a new Swig soda shop in Phoenix were halted this month when the Phoenix Board of Adjustment denied a use permit to allow for a drive-thru restaurant.

The property of the proposed drive-thru soda shop, at 535 W. Bethany Home Road, is zoned for commercial use but had a single-family residence on it until last year when it was demolished. The 0.37-acre parcel sits between a gas station at the southeast corner of Seventh Avenue and Bethany Home Road and other single-family houses to the east and south.

This map shows the 0.37-acre parcel at 535 W. Bethany Home Road where a Swig soda shop was planned until it was denied for a special-use permit to allow for a drive-thru. The property is zoned for commercial use but had a single-family residence on it, pictured here, until last year when it was demolished.

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