Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Queens doesn't want no stinkin' restaurant sheds


 

Queens Eagle 

The Queens Borough Board voted Monday night against the city’s plan to permanently expand outdoor dining throughout the five boroughs.

With 13 voting against and 6 voting in favor, the City Councilmembers and Community Board chairpersons on the borough’s advisory board overwhelmingly said the city’s plan to permanently allow sidewalk cafes wasn’t fleshed out enough to get their OK.

The board, which issues advisory opinions, said that it wasn’t keen on voting to allow the Department of City Planning and the Department of Transportation to implement the program before the details of the program have been codified.

“We appreciate what the text amendment is trying to do, pretty much we could agree with it, our issue really revolves around the fact that the text amendment is coming fist, before we have a fleshed out program from DOT,” said Betty Bratton, the chair of Community Board 10. We’re opening the door to do something before we have an understanding of what we're going to do.”

“We don’t need to give permission for something to happen, before we know what the permission is going to allow,” Bratton added. “Otherwise...we’re buying a pig in a poke.”

The city has been shopping around its text amendment to community boards for several months.

Citywide, 20 boards voted in favor of the text amendment, 23 against, one had no objections and one board, Queens Community Board 14, waived their right to vote.

The amendment would essentially remove geographic restrictions on sidewalk cafes. Currently, sidewalk cafes are only allowed in a few parts of the city.

The expansion would apply to most commercial corridors in Queens and throughout New York City, but how the program would work – barring the fact that DOT would enforce it – has yet to be written.

Community Board 13 voted in favor of the amendment but at Monday’s Borough Board meeting, board chair Bryan Block said his members still have worries.

“We had serious concerns..about enforcement by DOT,” Block said. “We don’t want to stop restaurants...we want to support our restaurants but enforcement is key.”

Block said that his district already doesn’t have all of its quality of life issues addressed in a timely or efficient way, especially when it comes to late night parties.

According to DOT representative Albert Silvestri, the NYPD and Department of Environmental Protection would continue to enforce noise complaints coming from restaurants participating in the new program. However, if a restaurant continues to be the subject of complaints, it would “impact their standing within the program.”

And now a final word, actually another prepared statement full of Transportation Totalitarians talking points from Commissioner Hank Gutman:

 "Open Restaurants not only helped save New York’s world-renowned restaurant industry, it also showed how we can dynamically reimagine our streetscape,” DOT Commissioner Hank Gutman said in a statement. “Developing design guidelines will ensure that this emergency program can be transformed into a permanent part of our city, anchoring restaurants in our communities so that this program continues to flourish.”

 Restaurants are already anchored in communities you dotard. GTFOH 

37 comments:

SeerofZOG said...

Well we're going to need outdoor dining huts because the Rona is about to come roaring back with a vengeance. Why? Because not only does Das Jab not work, it actually makes you MORE susceptible. This winter is gonna be lit!

And naturally, the nitwits in charge will just double-down on the stupid. More mask requirements! Though we know with 100% absolute certainty that masks do nothing. Yes, I said nothing. They don't help "a little." They help none.

Then we'll shutdown indoor dining again, which will also do nothing other than kill jobs and businesses. And we'll force people to sit outdoors in the cold so their already vax-damaged immune systems can be further weakened. Genius!

Maybe Merck's new $700 pill (not nearly as effective as a $2 ivermectin pill) will save the day, or at least allow our retarded "leaders" to have an excuse to not go full Australia on us.

But nah, expect full Australia this winter. You heard it here first.

Anonymous said...

"We’re slipping and sliding towards third worldism."
The late great talk show host Bob Grant said...

Adriatic Hillbilly said...

If you insist in eating in the gutter, do it the right way -- with a quart of ballantine's ale in one hand and a $3 fried fish sandwich in the other... Sutphin Blvd style, baby

Anonymous said...

Rather those than stinking car lanes.

Anonymous said...

Rather those than stinking car lanes.

Anonymous said...

Well if people can store their cars and vans on the street, why not have these too.

Anonymous said...

The sheds are bullshit. They are just taking away the roads from cars.
Rashida Tlaib Caught Admitting on Camera that Masks Are for Show !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpZeYBEYPTE&ab_channel=TheRubinReport

Anonymous said...

1) fix the economy
2) beat the virus
3) fix the border
4) set a stellar foreign policy

Let’s go Brandon!

Anonymous said...

I think they are great. What have you got against people exercising their freedoms?

Anonymous said...

Yet another epic battle brews between the job creators and the communists who want to deprive them of a livelihood.

Anonymous said...

The Rats will be disappointed.

Anonymous said...

Sheeple must follow the mandates !

Anonymous said...

The thought of DOT managing this (Or Any) program should scare the shit out of you, if it doesn't you're not paying attention. DOT has fucked this city so badly it might never get unfucked....

Wake up!

Anonymous said...

Never thought I would see the day when people would be dining in the gutter for health reasons.

Anonymous said...

The Rats will be disappointed.

Anonymous said...

Being anti vax is the new punk rock ..

Anonymous said...

Communists striking another blow against the job creators.

Anonymous said...

In case the residents of QUEENS County didn't already get the memo, it doesn't matter what you want——or DON'T want. Your publicly elected politicians (NOT public servants) don't answer to you (if ever), despite how they continue to get PAID by your publicly unauthorized tax dollars.

Don't EVEN bother taking to activism, rally, protest or resistance of the DemonRat, leftist Marxist strangleholds, all slaves of New York City. Face the Cold Light of Day reality, possums: If an ignorant West Indian former Borough President named Helen Marshall could capriciously and arbitrarily wield the unearned, undeserved power to appoint herself public art censor, as well as to embody the heft to rob Kew Gardens Plaza of its gifted, 22-ton statue from Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in 1942 ('The Triumph of Civic Virtue' that symbolized the triumph over corruption and vice) because of a chaste minority of 'Femi-nazi' women who falsely believed that this precious work of Italian marble symbolized misogyny, then your voice, your input and visiblity will hold no persuasive effect in banishing these hideous, poorly constructed eyesores from existence.

The ONLY power that exists is 'Power to the Party' (the DemonRat-entrenched party-machine-failed CULT-disease), and NEVER 'Power to the People.' Because, the two-party-macine-failed duopoly wields ALL power and control——and, the ever languishing public be eternally duped, bilked, scammed and damned——nothin' NEW or ILLEGAL 'bout THAT!

❝Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.❞ ——George Orwell, '1984'

❝Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless and corrupt.❞ ——Mahatma Gandhi

Anonymous said...

Turd Ferguson said...
Enough with this lack of civility. Bring back The Big Bow Wow !

Anonymous said...

Being anti vax is the new punk rock ..

Define "VAX" first.

Anonymous said...

Never thought I would see the day when people would be dining in the gutter for health reasons.

Part of the Build Back Better program.
Bet any money Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates and the rest of the un-elected "leaders" of the world will never eat in a shack.
Mumbai on the Hudson!

Anonymous said...

Rather those than stinking car lanes.

See ya in December!
You must have taken the short bus to school, you say everything twice?

Anonymous said...

But nah, expect full Australia this winter. You heard it here first.

Doubt it. The rest is spot on.
The Build Back Better crowd is about controlling the world, the planet, the resources
and the population.
Destroying small business is a major goal of theirs.
Will see about Merck and their pill, last time Vioxx didn't work out so well.
Big Pharma is controlling a lot pf politicians, their advertisement dollars control the media, no wonder "vaccination" for everyone.
Now they just need to figure out how to "vaccinate" dead people.
Trillion dollar business with full liability shield.

Anonymous said...

TheSheeple said... I like dining in the gutter !

Anonymous said...

Build Back Brandon !

Anonymous said...

Wow! It’s the return of the “Quotation Drone”.
Yeehaw! Bring on the weekend!

Anonymous said...

Rob in Manhattan said...
This is about giving people a chance to get back to normal.
This is what happens when our government feels that they have to answer to their populous.
I agree completely with this announcement.

Rob in Manhattan

Anonymous said...

Build Back Better as seen in the background at Bidet press conference yesterday:


World Economic Forum: "You'll own nothing, and you'll be happy" by 2030

https://youtu.be/ER04dbt5p74


The Chinese “social credit” system (May 2019)

https://youtu.be/NXyzpMDtpSE

This is what the cabal has in mind for the rest of the world.

Anonymous said...

@ "Anonymous said...
1) fix the economy
2) beat the virus
3) fix the border
4) set a stellar foreign policy"


I have to agree with you. Biden is dong all four.

1 Economy is improving.
2 Virus would have been beaten if it wasn't for TrumpTurds and other assorted dumbos who refuse to wear masks or get vaccinated.Only way to counter that is extermination camps, and that wouldn't go down well with his liberal base. For me, it would be just too expensive.
3. The waste of money border wall that couldn't keep out a goat is being wound down.
4. Afgan war is over as promised.

Next...

Anonymous said...

@Quotation Drone
"Don't EVEN bother taking to activism, rally, protest or resistance of the DemonRat, leftist Marxist strangleholds, all slaves of New York City. Face the Cold Light of Day reality, possums'

We are waiting for you to lead the way. Where should we gather "Dear New Leader"? We will follow your quotations to our freedoms.

Anonymous said...

Keep the sheds. Dump the cars!

Anonymous said...

@"I have to agree with you. Biden is dong all four"
Back on the meds boy ! Boe Jiden can't wipe his own butt.

Anonymous said...

Keep the sheds. Dump the cars!

Easier to dump you, THE CRAP.

Anonymous said...

Quote from the propaganda machine:

1 Economy is improving.
2 Virus would have been beaten if it wasn't for TrumpTurds and other assorted dumbos who refuse to wear masks or get vaccinated.Only way to counter that is extermination camps, and that wouldn't go down well with his liberal base. For me, it would be just too expensive.
3. The waste of money border wall that couldn't keep out a goat is being wound down.
4. Afgan war is over as promise

1. In his head. All MSM whores turned pale on live TV when the job report was finally published.

2. You knowledge of viruses is ZERO. A surgical quality mask N95 stops up
0.3 micron particles up to 95% and is changed a few times during surgery.
Your favorite "virus" ranges from 20 nanometers to 0.07 microns. You figure it out. Gene therapy is not vaccination, endless boosters are not needed with vaccines.
Spare us the details of the Tetanus vaccine.

You are into mass murder. Obviously you are a deranged individual, speaks for itself.

3. You know what wall stops who. You are Border Patrol, but you have a point, your man Bidet and his Deep State buddies are flying in everybody now from everywhere,
unvaccinated, unvetted, anything goes.
So much for your Bidet Turd logic about vaccines.

4. Would not brag about leaving behind people, American Citizens and Green Card holders,kids, women, military technology, 85 billion dollars worth of hardware, plus the CCP is using the airbases left behind. apparently you have not heard from the new Silk Road.
The order was received from CCP and we ran out. this was no withdrawal nor was it initiated by the Senile-in-Chief.

You come here to provoke, want to see what the answers are, you and yours can shove it where the Sun doesn't shine.

Anonymous said...

@"You come here to provoke, want to see what the answers are, you and yours can shove it where the Sun doesn't shine."

No, I came here to dispute the lies and BS that brainwashed Right Wing freak shows like you spew day in day out.

Anonymous said...

To the sophomoric idiot, and simple life form (with the IQ of RAIN!) who keeps using this blog to harass and abuse privileges for the important work of accomplished adults:

❝@Quotation Drone Don't EVEN bother taking to activism, rally, protest or resistance of the DemonRat, leftist Marxist strangleholds, all slaves of New York City. Face the Cold Light of Day reality, possums'.

We are waiting for you to lead the way. Where should we gather "Dear New Leader"? We will follow your quotations to our freedoms.❞

Your worn out stylus is stuck (again and STILL!), in the same groove of your warped, 1955 LP record, you pitiful high school dropout, and lifetime coward! So, instead of more of your tired vulture repition, how about you show me your JD from Yale Law School, and your MBA from Cornell?——and you can show my your dented Scooby Doo lunch bucket from your starvation wages job at the quarry with your pal, Fred Flintsone?——DEAL?

Anonymous said...

Hey, JQ. Following is yet another jab from one of your invisible, hidden, online 'Wizard Behind The Curtain' misfits when the misanthrope said: ❝Wow! It’s the return of the 'Quotation Drone.' Yeehaw! Bring on the weekend!❞

If you have ever wondered why bullying exists for school children, even (and especially) AFTER it has been reported (repeatedly), but no action was ever taken, then why do you allow openly hostile, online, off topic, targeted bullying attacks to continually make their way onto this blog, oddly employed by the same sophomoric misfits with too much time to waste on their dirty baby hands?

Please endeavor to remind the mouthy cowards that their abuse will not be tolerated, because with each time that you post their tired, personal attacks (ad nauseam), then you are legitimizing their abuse against the greater audience, all of whom don't use this platform abusively to attack other people's posts without actual cause. But, alas, if ONLY the buffoons saved their venom for the equally cowardly politicians who foisted the neo-feudalism and terminal wage slavery on them which triggered their misdirected anger against me, in the FIRST place!

Because of a chaste gallery of empowered idiots who track my comments relentlessly (and obsessively), it's straining all credibility on your administrative leadership to control, block and/or banish these endless attacks, without further delay. It also silences the speaker, whilst ceding power to the abuser——exactly like the schoolyard bully! Please end the abuse that has now become a case of holding this blog hostage to their brainless agenda——with YOUR blessing!