Outdoor Dining Zones To End In Annapolis On Nov. 1

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Outdoor eating successful nationalist parking spaces and edifice parking lots, 2 exigency measures enacted astatine the tallness of the pandemic, volition extremity successful Annapolis connected Nov. 1, Mayor Gavin Buckley said Tuesday.

Buckley said the programs volition beryllium discontinued due to the fact that the metropolis is nary longer nether a authorities of emergency.

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Since spring 2020, immoderate downtown restaurants were permitted to physique “parklettes” with seating successful nationalist parking spaces oregon enactment eating areas successful backstage parking tons arsenic portion of the city’s Recovery Zones program.

In a statement, Buckley said that portion helium is successful favour of the programme and has received affirmative feedback, further enactment from the Annapolis City Council is needed to proceed outdoor eating without the authorities of exigency order.

“The momentum connected this contented seems to beryllium connected the broadside of it continuing,” helium said. “The pandemic opened our eyes to the inferior of it, but it turns retired that tons of radical deliberation it is simply a chill happening to bask a repast out-of-doors.”

Buckley is the proprietor of 4 restaurants connected West Street successful Annapolis.

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Returning the parking spots to cars volition besides assistance section retailers during the vacation buying season, the mayor’s bureau said.

“There is simply a delicate equilibrium betwixt a constricted fig of parking spaces and the needs of antithetic kinds of businesses, particularly successful historical downtown,” Buckley’s bureau said.

Businesses with a sidewalk eating licence tin proceed to spot guests outside.

The assembly precocious agreed to 5 lease agreements with restaurants successful Market Space to let them to proceed outdoor eating aft the Recover Zones programme expires.

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Annapolis is holding elections for the politician and assembly connected Nov. 2. The politician and assembly volition beryllium inaugurated connected Dec. 6.

CBS Baltimore Staff

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