The Oklahoma City Planning Department will work with local restaurants to rework proposed regulations for drive-thru menu boards that met stiff resistance at Tuesday's city council meeting.

The regulations, if approved by the council, would restrict the menu boards' size to 36 square feet, restrict digital displays to 20 percent of the total board size and require restaurants to angle them where they can't be read from adjacent properties.

Representatives from Braum's, Sonic, McDonalds and the Oklahoma Restaurant Association came to the ordinance's public hearing at Tuesday's meeting and said the regulations were arbitrary and nearly impossible to comply with. They asked city council members and staff to hold off on approving the rules until the Planning Department consulted with local restaurants.

The restaurants contended it's not possible to position the boards where they can't be seen from nearby properties, and that some existing boards are already bigger than the new regulations would allow. They also said some parts of the proposed rules are unclear, and a law soon to take effect requires the restaurants to add nutritional information for every item, so some boards will have to get bigger.