Owners

of GTO's restaurant can now move forward with

plans for an expansion to allow inside dining.

Fayetteville

Planning Commission members during last week

seemed approved development plans for the

addition, with the stipulation that sidewalks be

built out front as soon as properties on either

side of the restaurant are developed.

GTO's

was built using different, older development

regulations, and city ordinances state that in

such cases, when a business adds on it must

upgrade to the newer rules, as much as is

practical.

When

owner Charles Oddo came to the city with plans to

expand last month, commissioners suggested

several areas where he might have to make the

building conform to current code requirements,

but in recent meetings have decided some of those

changes aren't practical and decided to cut the

restaurant some slack.

"They

have agreed to install the sidewalks whenever the

properties to the north or south build

theirs," said planning director Jahnee

Prince.

The

restaurant will build a 370-sq. ft. addition to

accommodate customers who want to dine inside.

The

'50s style drive-through concept works fine when

the weather is good, said Oddo in a previous

meeting, but when storm clouds rise, his profits

plummet, he said.