“These patios are the pulse of the community, as we saw over the last couple of years,” Gamelin told NEWSTALK 1010’s Moore in the Morning last week. “How much vibrancy it brought to the streets, how many families came out, people who were driving by, not even intending to stop, stopped.”
“The city says, in a few weeks, we’ll send you an approval. Then you can go ahead and design based on the traffic safety plan, then we have to send that back to them for approval,” she said. According to the city, traffic safety plans – which a spokesperson said have been around since the start of the program in 2020 – are “thoroughly reviewed by staff and are then shared with CafeTO applicants that have been approved for curb lane cafe space.”is and appears to be what is holding Gamelin’s business back.
The city said all temporary platform designs must be stamped/signed by a licensed design professional and submitted to the city by July 1. Once approved, the designs can be reused in future years. “We are opening up public space for profit. So I think we have to do that in a responsible way. That does mean that, this year, you have to have an accessible platform. I think that's important…let's make sure that everybody can have access to that patio,” she said., while 1,213 participated in 2021 and 801 in 2020.
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