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Outdoor dining grew during the pandemic, now there’s a plan to keep the expansion
Dallas’ Street Seats program will give parklets a more permanent presence.
A temporary seating area outside of Revelers Hall on Bishop Avenue in Dallas, May 15, 2020. Co-owner Jason Roberts said the built structure is an example of a semipermanent parklet, or outdoor seating area that spills out onto a street.(Ben Torres / Special Contributor)
We are as eager as anyone to be done with this year, to flip to the last page of the sci-fi horror thriller that is 2020 and chuck it out the window.
But we can credit this terrible year with deepening our gratitude for the things that helped us endure it. The time spent with our closest loved ones. The courage of essential workers. The spaces that our cities carved for us outdoors.
“This pilot the city had before COVID hit had some requirements that were [changed] for this new program, and I think it’s going to make it a lot more flexible, especially with how restaurants might want to use it,” says Popken, board president of the Congress for the New Urbanism North Texas. “There are two models privately owned parklet space or public-owned for anyone who chooses to sit there or park their bike there.
“The pilot had been designed for a public space, so a private business wasn’t able to apply for a TABC permit for example. Now it’s public or private space.”