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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Outdoor dining here is a joke. It's seasonal and puts you on a roadway next to moving cars or on a sidewalk next to moving pedestrians. Nothing pleasurable or scenic about it. Go to California where restaurants are built to accommodate outdoor dining. Then come back here and realize how awful the DC "al fresco" dining experience truly is.

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Another death rattle from a whining driver[/quote]

Wrong. I’m the PP you responded to. Live in AU Park, cycle to/from work, and walk to do most of my errands. My point is that streateries and most outside dining sucks around here while our expectations and standards are abysmally low.

But if you want to dine above a sewer grate or in a cramped makeshift tent, then you do you.[/quote]

Some streateries are great, and some are not. In many cases, the fact that they are officially still a temporary program means that businesses haven't yet made the kinds of investments that make them better.

The solution is to make the program permanent, but also to charge a reasonable rent. Streateries that don't invest or are unpleasant will eventually lose foot traffic and will close. The ones that make themselves nice will have no trouble paying the equivalent of whatever parking revenue the city would have made before.

In places where we already know that streateries will continue to be popular but sidewalks are narrow (like 18th St. Or M St.), we should also just go ahead and bump out the curb permanently. That will make it much easier for business owners to make attractive long-term investments.[/quote]

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