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Board debates outdoor dining’s scale, seasonality and safety in CB2
Summary
Manhattan CB2 members discussed outdoor-dining growth (reported as 542 applications in the district), concerns about concentration and public-safety issues, and city proposals to shift program oversight; the board said it will keep enforcing clear-path and ADA standards and referenced a recent full-board resolution on perimeter demarcation.
Members of the Manhattan Community Board executive committee spent a large portion of the meeting debating the scope and impacts of the city’s outdoor-dining programs in Community Board 2.
A committee representative reported that the board has handled roughly 542 outdoor-dining applications in its 1.4 square-mile district — described in the meeting as about 30% of Manhattan’s outdoor-dining cafes and nearly 20% citywide. Speakers disagreed over whether that scale represented success or…
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