A bill to help restaurants recover from pandemic losses is on its way to the governor’s desk.
Senate Bill 314 would grant businesses with expanded outdoor dining space a one-year grace period to apply for a permanent expansion, according to the bill’s author, State Senator Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco. The partner legislation in the Assembly is authored by Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, D-Woodland Hills.
“Outdoor dining has become a part of our way of life in cities and towns across California,” said Wiener, in a news release Friday from his office. “S.B. 314 will keep this popular practice in place. It will also help our small businesses recover from COVID-19, which has devastated our hospitality industry in particular.”
The one-year grace period would begin, according to the release, after the emergency order is lifted to apply for a permanent expansion, allowing significantly expanded outdoor restaurant/bar seating with alcohol service, for example, on streets, parking lots, alleys or sidewalks.
The legislation would also streamline the state’s alcohol licensing process by increasing to 36, from the current maximum of 24, the number of times business can use a catering license at a single location.
Wiener said his bill passed the Assembly and the Senate on concurrence by unanimous votes.
wow, only Democrats would be proud of allowing people to have their rights, then say how great they are for doing it
#RecallGavinNewsom
p.s. wiener is the guy who made it OK for gay pedophiles to do their thing
Wiener is less than poo on the bottom of a shoe
Such a Disgusting human being
Whereas Republicans prefer to just take people’s rights away (we see you Texas).
Newsom is ahead in the polls so it would seem you might need to get a new governor the more legitimate way.
So how are cities going to make sure that people with disabilities are going to be safe when using the road instead of a sidewalk?
How are diners’ and pedestrians going to be protected if or when a crazy driver loses control of his or her car?
What are the new parking rules going to be like and how are they going to make up for the lost parking on the side of the street?
Are speed limits going to change?
I think having outdoor seating space should be the norm but many of these places weren’t designed with that plan in mind.
I also expect there’ll be more incidents like this: https://www.ktvu.com/news/walnut-creek-dine-and-dash-suspect-opens-fire
PESFG-
If a crazy driver lost control of their car in the
past, how were people on the sidewalk protected.
Like grandma always said- “If you don’t like the
way I drive, stay off the sidewalk”. A business
compensates a municipality for the loss of parking
revenue. Lastly, criminals will be criminals regardless
of the dining situation.
@Shoulda Coulda
There are times when people are able to run and get out of harm’s way as much as possible, not the same when sitting down at a table with guard down enjoying having a good time.
How are these businesses compensating when they are losing revenue?
Sure, criminals will be criminals, but why continue to bend the rules for them at the expense of those who are a benefit to society and not a hindrance?
OMG there is a bill for everything, the taxpayers are being taxed to death and here comes more bills! Knock it off already!
It took me 40 plus years to realize we ( USA ) are far far from being the land of the free 🙁
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Yes, Sacramento knows what is best at a local level.
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Wiener is a socialist and a threat to local decision makers.
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fix the potholes.
I’m from the government and I’m here to help
A good majority of all politicians are socialist which is right on the verge of communist and yes that includes Republicans as well not just the Democrats and the independence and the list goes on.
America is changing for the worse it’s being destroyed by the inside by organizations and thinking such as Woke, BLM, Critical Race Theory, Cancel Culture and so on..
Wake up people (and I don’t mean Woke up), your new way of thinking is ruining this country trying to erase history and everything about it.
Agree .
LOWER MY TAXES AND ALL TAX RATES FIRST!!!
Sometime, I like the democratics for coming up with fresh ideas. But this is f@$king nut! Come on now, I understand the need for people to be outside when there were SIL so I look the other way when the government allowed restaurants to temporary have outside seatings.
If the government allows the restaurants to permanently set up the outside seating. I demand lower fee for car registration, lower gas price because the percentage of these aren’t going to road repair. And I want a parking price cap
How about we vote to end this bull.. you know, go back to eating inside like normal people, instead of sitting outside by order. If you want to eat outside fine, but the concept of eating outdoors only is getting real old. As soon as the October nights roll in, in the Valley, once again you will be fighting to sit under the tiki torch propane gas heaters. That is insanity…TWO YEARS FOLKS. Stop the insanity so restaurants can go back to being dine ins. The fact you can go into a building of any sort for meeting or food, that you can take the mask off to eat or drink but not just to talk…is INSANITY.
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#RecallGavinNewsom
Relax because it’s not going to go back to what it was. Restaurant inside dining will be a different kind of experience.
Best read the entire bill. If Weiner is involved there are certainly “shenanigans” under the hood. So to speak.
I was required to pass a “temperature check” at a local restaurant – in addition to being masked (and I am Vaxxed). I walked out. I just cannot do it anymore – it’s humiliating and inappropriate (a restaurant worker is not a doctor or a nurse).
so some kid or unskilled healthcare worker can deny your service based upon your external body temp. not your core body temp….hmm..yea all of this is starting to make sense now..i.e. NO..and in fact..did you know the temp devices they use are not medically calibrated..?You walk into kaiser and their engineering has to ensure calibration of temperature devices, and then stamp the date of service on them. Because the temp is documented in your chart.
But taking your temp with a 10 dollar temp device from Harbor Freight can deny you service by someone who isnt even trained to do triage….welcome to 1984.
Pardon me Grace, but you don’t really want me to check your core body temperature…. or do you?
It’s perplexing, the California voters in the past would be to never allow a rich person to buy an election. Very astute of them to disallow that. But now It’s seemingly disturbing that Newsom is doing that very thing in a opposing fashion. Using every single taxpayers money to pay to halt his Recall by paying any and all of his voters to do just that. You would think that would be unethical or illegal. The only answer to that would be to RECALL NEWSOM!