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Nevada City needs to decide what it’s going to do about outdoor dining, its interm manager said.
Since June 1, 2020, the city has allowed 19 restaurants to have dining on sidewalks. Thirteen of them remain operating outdoors, though seven aren’t in compliance and city staff will speak with them, interim City Manager Joan Phillipe said.
Concerns about restaurants operating outdoors have persisted, especially when considering they take up parking spaces. And with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s June 15 state reopening date approaching, which is expected to drop the color coded tier system and likely drop many COVID-19 restrictions, Nevada City needs to adopt a plan on how to move forward with business operations, Phillipe said.
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Starting May 1 Nevada City will reimplement its parking pass program and once again begin enforcing parking meter fees.
The city temporarily suspended collecting parking meter fees last June to try to minimize the effect of COVID-19 restrictions on businesses.
However in July the council voted to enforce the policy again, determining the revenue the parking meter fees brought to the city was greater than the potential incentive the suspension provides for patrons.
Despite passing a resolution reversing the suspension, the policy was never enforced after the state moved to its color coded tier system that determines counties’ COVID-19 restrictions.
“From that point on the resolution was not enforced with the understanding that the police department would instead focus its enforcement on COVID violations,” interim City Manager Joan Phillipe told the City Council at its Wednesday meeting. “As you’ve made clear that hasn’t been a consistent practice either.”
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