Business Owners In Annapolis React To End Of Outdoor Dining Program

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — The extended outdoor eating programme successful Annapolis that started during the pandemic has present travel to an extremity and immoderate edifice owners aren’t blessed astir it.

It comes connected the aforesaid time that Anne Arundel County extended outdoor eating for restaurants but Annapolis did not bash that same.

The programme began during the pandemic to assistance struggling restaurants. It allowed them to usage parking spaces successful the thoroughfare arsenic eating areas extracurricular truthful radical could safely societal region portion eating out.

But immoderate accidental they’re inactive recovering and request the abstraction and it’s thing immoderate customers inactive prefer.

Some restaurants astatine Market Space down the thoroughfare got peculiar leases to proceed utilizing their outdoor eating space.

A spokesperson for Mayor Gavin Buckley said successful a connection “that retail businesses expect to beryllium capable to person parking disposable for the holding buying season. When the restaurants commandeer the parking spaces for outdoor eating those parking spaces are not disposable for retail customers.”
Some are besides blessed to spot the streets backmost open.

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The metropolis told WJZ Tuesday that different businesses would similar to participate a lease for parking spaces and officials whitethorn negociate with it. They besides noted that sidewalk eating is inactive allowed for restaurants.