3 Seattle-area restaurant groups receive maximum grant from Restaurant Revitalization Fund
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Naomi Tomky, Special to the Seattle P-I
July 14, 2021
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Professional chef preparing 200 fruit salad portions as part of a fine dining restaurant menu in a generic locationSir Francis Canker Photography/Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
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This week, the Small Business Association (SBA) released the data about the 105,000 restaurants that received grants from the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, of which about 2,000 were in the Seattle area and 1000 in Seattle proper.
The $28.6 billion fund, part of the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that passed in March, set out to help cover the industry’s pandemic-driven losses, but the too-small purse caused controversy about how to distribute it.
Seattle City Council committee approves plan to extend street dining permits through 2022
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Street dining plaza at Eden Hill Provisions in Queen Anne.Alexa T. via YelpShow MoreShow Less
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Street and sidewalk cafes could become a more permanent fixture of dining in Seattle thanks to new legislation proposed this week by the city council.
Sponsored by Councilmember Dan Strauss and Council President Lorena Gonzalez, Council Bill 120068 would create a pathway to permanency for the city s cafe streets pilot program.
The city launched a pilot program last July offering free sidewalk and curb space permits to help small businesses stay afloat amid coronavirus restrictions which limited indoor dining. Those licenses were initially temporary, and the permit program was later extended through the winter to October 2021 to continue to aid these businesses.
Home-based businesses have more freedom to operate under new Seattle rules
Businesses like Yonder Cider in Phinney Ridge will now be able to operate from home during the pandemic with fewer restrictions. Author: KING 5 Staff Updated: 7:36 AM PDT March 16, 2021
SEATTLE The Seattle City Council approved a measure Monday to adjust certain land use codes that have negatively impacted home businesses during the pandemic.
Councilmember Dan Strauss sponsored the Bringing Business Home bill, which passed with an 8-1 vote Monday. The bill is designed to allow home-based businesses, including those that may have once operated out of a storefront, to operate with fewer restrictions during the COVID-19 civil emergency.
Popular neighborhood business allowed to stay open after Seattle council loosens land use rules
Greenwood s Yonder Cider. (Photo courtesy of Yonder Bar)
Seattle councilmembers approved legislation Monday, loosening a series of land use rules imposed on businesses operating out of homes.
The legislation came partly in response to the forced closure of a popular Greenwood business called Yonder Bar, which had been selling cider to go in cans and growlers. Yonder operated out of Caitlin Braam’s garage for seven months before a neighbor’s frequent complaints to the Health Department and Liquor Control Board got it shut down. At the time, the neighbor pointed out that operating a business that sold alcohol out of a residence blocks away from a school violated Seattle’s existing land use codes.
Greenwood s Yonder Cider to remain open after Seattle City Council approves microbusiness bill by Callie Craighead, SeattlePI
Greenwood s Yonder Bar will get to keep their garage doors open for at least another year after the Seattle City Council approved a bill that loosened restrictions on home-based microbusinesses in the city.
The Bringing Businesses Home bill passed 8-1 on Monday with Councilmember Alex Pedersen in sole opposition.
Sponsored by Councilmembers Dan Strauss and Teresa Mosqueda as well as President Lorena Gonzalez, the bill will ease citywide restrictions for one year during the COVID-19 pandemic, suspending these regulations for home-based businesses: Customer visits are by appointment only