December 2015 revisions are included on a preliminary development plan for Bauer Farm.

Another drive-thru restaurant and bank could be locating near Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive if a measure going before the City Commission on Tuesday is approved.

The measure would revise the plans for the Bauer Farm area, located northeast of the Sixth Street and Wakarusa Drive intersection, allowing for seven drive-thru establishments instead of the current five.

There are already tentative plans for a new bank and restaurant with drive-thrus to develop there, and a traffic study shows the additions would have little effect on the area, said Bill Fleming, an attorney and spokesman with Treanor Architects, the architecture firm behind Bauer Farm.

But opponents on the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission said the change is deviating from Bauer Farm being pedestrian friendly, as it was intended to be when first proposed in 2006. At the time, the development was introduced as “New Urbanism” — a mix of housing, retail stores and offices all in walking distance.

“That comes back to wanting to retain some of the original aspirations of the development, that being it’s pedestrian-oriented,” said Sandra Day, a city planner. “We do still have a lot of very strong pedestrian elements, but the more drive-thru you add, the more I think it’s viewed as lost. I think that really did not sit well with some of the commissioners.”

Fleming said developers requested the changes after a bank and restaurant expressed interest in locating to the area.

A fast-food chicken restaurant wants to establish just east of Burger King off West Sixth Street, Fleming said. That parcel of land is already planned for a restaurant, though not a drive-thru. Fleming said the deal isn’t official and that he could not yet name the restaurant.

“Part of it is waiting on this deal to happen,” Fleming said. “They’re not going to go forward if they can’t get a drive-thru.”

The bank, which Fleming also would not name, would be located north of the CVS at the Sixth Street-Wakarusa Drive intersection.

The Planning Commission voted 5-3 in December to recommend the changes for approval.

According to a draft of the planning commission’s minutes, Patrick Kelly, one of the commissioners who voted against the proposal, voiced concern about another fast-food restaurant being located near Free State High School.

Planning Commissioner Clay Britton, though he voted for the changes, said Bauer Farm has “crept away” from its initial concept, which had been undercut for development opportunities, according to the minutes.

Scott McCullough, city planning director, told the commission the biggest reason for Bauer Farm not being developed as intended was because of the recession, the minutes state.

The City Commission is tasked with giving the final go-ahead. Commissioners convene Tuesday at 5:45 p.m. at City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St.