Title
Pilot Program to Study Commercial Outdoor Dining in Privately Owned Parking Lots - For the purpose of approving a Pilot Program to study the use of private parking lots by restaurants after the end of the period of the City's Emergency Declaration.
Body
CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Resolution 22-22
Introduced by: Alderman Arnett
Co-sponsored by: Alderwoman O'Neill, Alderman Gay
A RESOLUTION concerning
Restaurant Use of Private Parking Lots- A Pilot Study
FOR the purpose of directing the City Manager to conduct a Pilot Program to study the restaurant use of privately owned parking lots after the end of the period of the City's Emergency Declaration.
WHEREAS, the City of Annapolis is currently considering ending its state of emergency which allowed restaurants to utilize parking areas for outdoor dining as a safety and health measure; and
WHEREAS, the City has determined that there is an acceptance by the public of outdoor dining as an acceptable and highly desirable offering by local restaurant establishments; and
WHEREAS, recent legislation introduced which would call for the elimination of all parking requirements for commercial establishments throughout the City has yet to be adequately reviewed or studied for its overall impact on the City's quality of life, traffic and tax revenues; and
WHEREAS, certain commercial and residential zones would experience more negative impacts from outdoor dining and the loss of adjacent parking then others because of the lack of reasonable time and place restrictions and regulations; and
WHEREAS, the failure to conduct a thorough economic empirical analysis of the possible consequences of such a wholesale change to restaurant parking requirements could generate unintended consequences if not done in a more systematic and in accordance with the City's Comprehensive Plan; and
NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the City Manager is directed to initiate a Parking Lot Usa...
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