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Committee approves sidewalk-cafe text changes, delays vote on fees
Summary
A city committee approved changes to sidewalk-cafe code language — including barrier layout, sanitation and a beer-bottle prohibition — but delayed deciding on a new fee schedule to allow more outreach to downtown businesses and to meet printing deadlines for license renewals.
A Tuscaloosa City committee voted to approve text amendments to the city’s sidewalk-cafe rules but tabled a decision on fees until mid-December to allow more outreach to downtown business owners and to accommodate business-license printing deadlines.
The committee split the item into two parts: text amendments (approved) and the fee schedule (deferred). Speaker 9, who presented the changes, told the committee the revisions clarify that a right-of-way use permit does not authorize commercial sidewalk-cafe use and that new sidewalk-cafe permits will not be issued to establishments classified as bar, club or private-event spaces, except for one existing permitted business.
The approved text adds operational and public-safety requirements,…
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