Nice looking roadway patio
Some were surprised late last year when, as the pandemic began to wind down, City Council voted to make roadway patios known as CafeTO a permanent feature of commercial streets. If merchants or motorists cared about the apparent loss of parking it doesn’t seem to have amounted to much. Mt Pleasant Rd and Danforth Ave (to name two) are streets full of new Spring patios all of which remove parking for customers. At the same time, desperate restaurateurs have been under orders to take down the roof of a covered patio that merely sat on the sidewalk. No doubt there is a legal reason but the strange odyssey of roadway dining is worthy of a study. Meantime, narrow Bayview Ave uses its ultra-wide sidewalks to accommodate outdoor eating.
