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Committee advances permanent sidewalk‑dining program; departments to coordinate reporting
Summary
After a pilot during the pandemic, the committee amended and reported a bill that would make sidewalk/outdoor dining a permanent city program, with annual reporting and continued interdepartmental coordination on permits, accessibility and enforcement.
The Committee on Planning, Infrastructure and Transportation on Feb. 11 amended and reported out a bill to make Honolulu's pandemic-era sidewalk and outdoor dining pilot a regular city program.
Deputy Director John Ouchi of the Department of Transportation Services described the program's origin: "The outdoor dining that we see in our city right now was the genesis of that happened during the pandemic," he said, recounting that early steps were simplified to help small restaurants survive social‑distancing requirements. Ouchi told the committee the…
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