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Hudson’s Restaurant Sidewalk Improvements
Brief Description: Hudson’s Restaurant, 80 N Main Street, is considering renovation to the front building façade and expansion of outdoor seating which would include shifting the walk zone and adjusting several on-street parking stalls.
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Legislative History
20-68 – Provides allowance for outdoor dining within the city right of way with a license agreement
Purpose & Explanation
Hudson’s Restaurant, 80 N Main Street, is considering a significant investment and renovation of the front building façade and expansion of outdoor seating which would include shifting the walk zone and adjusting some on-street parking stalls. The North Main St outdoor dining areas have been seasonally permitted through a license agreement provided a seven foot walk zoning is maintained. The level of expansion proposed would require removing three parking stalls.
Hudson’s Restaurant is seeking to update Council on the concepts proposed and obtain preliminary comment prior advancing with further design work.
City staff have completed some initial preliminary review and note:
Widening the sidewalk would cause the removal of three parking stalls
Any revisions made at Hudson Restaurant should be permitted in a manner that allows for future restaurant requests along Main Street
The current brick accent band adjacent to the curb is a rough texture, pervious surface to collect stormwater and serves as the area for street lights, bike racks, signage and related infrastructure. This material would need relocated to the revised curb location.
Staff completed preliminary review of revising the angled stalls to parallel along the full block to accommodate a widened sidewalk. This would revise the current 24 stalls down to a maximum of 13 parking stalls along the block. Additionally parallel stalls may cause traffic impacts to vehicles backing into spaces and create pedestrian conflict points when existing parked vehicles.
The current ...
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