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Carpinteria Extends COVID-19 Ordinance Allowing Businesses to Operate in Outside Public Areas


City Council votes unanimously to continue program through December while exploring whether to make it permanent
Since March 2020, the City of Carpinteria has issued 28 permits for businesses and other organizations to expand their operations outside or into public street rights-of-way. (Jade Martinez-Pogue / Noozhawk photo)
By Jade Martinez-Pogue, Noozhawk Staff Writer | @MartinezPogue
May 16, 2021
| 9:30 p.m.
With Santa Barbara County gaining increasing control over the COVID-19 pandemic, the Carpinteria City Council voted last week to extend an emergency ordinance allowing local businesses to expand operations into street rights-of-way.
“Many local businesses were forced to close for a number of months over the past year and, when open, business activities have been severely restricted,” City Manager Dave Durflinger wrote in a staff report to the council. ....

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