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[quote=Anonymous]The city's streatery guidelines state :  "Most streets may not be eligible for use as a Streatery due to transportation impacts and will be subject to a detailed transportation assessment and determination by DDOT".  Clearly that didn't happen in this case--if there had been an accident involving this streatery and traffic, the city could be held liable for violating its own rules. Not to mention the fact that no insurer would insure a streatery operating in a rush hour lane --so one wonders what was disclosed to Rosemary Bistro's insurer..One would hope Van Ness Main St who represented them, took a look at that.

The Van Ness Main Street application appears to have been approved within 3 days of its submission.

The city knows they made a mistake by allowing any streatery to operate in a lane that is used as a rush hour traffic lane-- so they are no longer approving streateries in rush hour parking lanes. They seem to have grandfathered in a few that were approved in 2020/21 temporarily until end of 2024-- the extensions to 2025 could only be for those that meet their guidelines which will clearly disallow rush hour parking lane structures. Whether they call the extended streateries temporary or permanent remains to be seen but it's clear they want any structure in a rush hour lane to be dismantled. Guidelines are apparently coming in the Fall.

There are only a handful of streateries in this situation so one would hope the city would warn those restaurants and give them fair time to plan their exit. The ANC commissioner for this district should ask for any correspondence or notes of contact with the city, that the applicant, landlord or restaurant has had-as well as confirm that insurance is properly adapted to cover the rush hour lane structure through the end of the permitting period.[/quote]

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