TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Talyn Mirzakhanian, City Manager
FROM:
Ryan Heise, Acting Community Development Director
Adam Finestone AICP, Planning Manager
Jaehee Yoon AICP, Senior Planner
SUBJECT:Title
Consideration of:
a) Preliminary Plans to Implement the Long-Term Outdoor Dining Program Preferred Vision; and
b) Recommendations from the Outdoor Dining Task Force
(Acting Community Development Director Heise).
(Estimated Time: 3 Hr.)
DISCUSS AND PROVIDE DIRECTION
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RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council consider and provide direction on the outdoor dining task force recommendations and the preliminary plans to implement the preferred program vision.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
Since May 1, 2023, the City has hosted 15 outdoor dining task force meetings with the goal of developing a long-term program that seeks to balance the preservation of residents' quality of life and provision of adequate outdoor dining opportunities. Most task force meetings resulted in various recommendations that were periodically presented to the City Council for further direction. The task force recommendations thus far include, but are not limited to, the definition of outdoor dining for the City; program scope in terms of eligible businesses and locations, program regulations (e.g., permit process, occupancy, operating hours, permit duration, enforcement mechanism, design standards, etc.), and the preferred program vision.
The preferred program vision is a potential solution to the long-term outdoor dining program that stemmed from community and task force input, as well as interdepartmental discussions. The preferred program vision consists of three main components, which include widening sidewalks along select streets; reconfiguring on-street parking spaces; and identifying public flex spaces with public-serving amenities throughout Downtown and North Manhattan Beach. Afte...
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