City Council advanced legislation Tuesday that would allow curb-side “streeteries” to remain beyond the coronavirus pandemic.
But, in a vast majority of the city’s neighborhoods, restaurateurs will have to pursue additional legislation to legalize their new seating arrangements — a process business leaders say is complex and overly bureaucratic.
Another bill that passed out of committee Tuesday would keep intact a simpler process brought on by COVID-19 to set up sidewalk cafes, which do not encroach on the street, through the end of next year.
