Dear Neighbor,
We wanted to make you aware that the
Department of Transportation is initiating a public meeting at every
Community Board in the city to push through the ZONING TEXT CHANGES that
will allow Open Restaurants and Bars to become PERMANENT.
In many areas, the eating and drinking sheds have become severely
problematic. As such, we are adamantly opposed to Outdoor Dining Sheds
becoming a permanent fixture in NYC.
We appreciate that these sheds were a lifeline for the hospitality
industry during the pandemic and allowed residents a safe place to
social distance. Since Covid restrictions have been lifted, we think it
is time for the emergency dining sheds to be retired, and the sidewalk
cafe process is reinstated regarding alfresco dining.
However, you feel about the Open Restaurants program, no public input
or proper environmental impact study was commissioned. Instead, the city
rammed the sheds through behind closed doors with little to no
oversight, calling it an unbridled success with few issues to
resolve. And agencies, like the Dept. of Transportation, testified two
weeks ago that there was no increase in noise or any other quality of
life or safety issues related to Open Dining Sheds. This is demonstratively false!
We now have the opportunity (and one last chance) to come out and voice our concerns.
WE URGE YOU TO SHOW UP! IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE BODIES AND VOICES IN THE ROOM!
Transportation, Public Safety, & Environment Committee
Tuesday, July 13 at 6:30 pm
Boys Club of New York
287 East 10th Street (at Avenue A)
*Please attend all four upcoming citywide community board meetings, if you can? Click here for more info about when and where.
FYI:
- Citywide Text Amendment: Open Restaurants (zoning changes to facilitate outdoor dining
- Click here for the text amendment application
We appreciate your consideration, and please don't hesitate to reach out with any questions.
Kind regards,
Diem Boyd, LES Dwellers
Tamara Daley, Orchard Street Block Association
Jan Lee, The Chinatown Core
Stuart Zamsky, The East Fifth Street Block Association
11 comments:
Take your incomes elsewhere and starve the city of city income tax!
If these private restaurants are now going to take our streets I want a refund on my car registration fees.
These bastards put these shacks on the corners and cars can not complete turns. Gridlock nightare. Oh and the garbage !!!
Its like the sidewalks are walled in in some places.
Is this some kind of war on cars like they did in Amsterdam?
This isn't just in the big cities but everywhere! Thanks democrats!
It's a Hooverville on every commercial street. Should we call them de-Blasio-towns or Cuomo-villages? Someone has a clever name for these monstrosities.
"Clever name for these monstrosities" DemoRaT Third World Shithole !
Crime, graft, and corruption are modus operandi. Prove me wrong ...
It’s called the free market economy. Get used to it you ungrateful socialists!
They look more like DUMPVILLES!!!
They are the new Dumpvilles for the Homeless, Rats, Drug Addicts and Filthy Garbage plaguing our streets.
I am waiting for the 2 hour long lines for food and handouts to be next!!
More socialist attacks on the job creators.
New York, New York. Love it or leave it!
These are the new Shit Shacks of NYC!!!
Since NYC do not have enough outdoor public bathrooms this is the best they can come up with!!
It's called the free market economy. Get used to it.
I’m here for the comments Sheeple !
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