A plan to ban new fast food restaurants in Apopka went nowhere Wednesday night.

Apopka's mayor wanted a temporary ban on new fast food restaurants in his city.

In Joe Kilsheimer’s first year as mayor of Apopka, two Taco Bells have opened their doors, adding to the city’s number of fast food restaurants.

“Some people refer to Apopka as the fast food capital of Central Florida,” Kilsheimer said.

Within the city limits, there are 22 fast food restaurants with drive-thrus. That may not seem like much, but a high concentration of them are found on the heavily traveled U.S.441.

“The size of the lots that many of them have been built on are pretty small, resident Suzanne Kidd said. “And so it’s not always possible for them to accommodate the amount of traffic that backs up.”

“This idea's meant to be temporary to give the city of Apopka time to conduct our visionary process so that we could solicit the input of Apopka residents and forge a consensus of how we want Apopka to grow,” Kilsheimer said.

Yet some commissioners had some beef with the idea.

“It provides jobs for our young people and a lot of our senior citizens,” Commissioner Billie Dean said.

A plan proposed Wednesday did not move forward, and neither did an amended plan.

The mayor said he would just like the moratorium on drive-thru developments to last through the end of the year. In that time, the city could conduct a new visionary process that would allow a consultant and residents to build a plan for the future.

Kilsheimer said he would not bring up the moratorium again.