“We would hope the city would want to help us improve our spaces and improve public spaces where communities get together, and it didn’t feel like that.”Hide and Seek is one of many businesses that were granted free temporary patio permits when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out.The province has since required municipalities to convert those temporary permits to permanent ones, which is where the conflict arose.
“We require some consultation with the neighbours and staff have to do a bit of legwork to make sure it is in keeping safety issues, and then that report has to come to council,” Murdoch said.Upcoming June inflation data could open door to 2nd Bank of Canada rate cutOwens said the process felt like needless and expensive red tape, particularly given that the next-door business, whose frontage the patio extends into, was fully in support of the application.