Chair Brooks-Powers Questions DOT on Common Preliminary Review Issues

Okay, so several things.

Again, as you mentioned, the response times from restaurants at the beginning, then we we often wait for payment for the public hearing.

We're having a hard time getting that payment secured in some cases from restaurants.

And how much is it?

It about $800 or so.

And then the last thing is like the remaining paperwork at the end to finalize the process.

Did DCWP provide any advice or guidance to DOT on management of the sidewalk cafe program before Local Law 121 transferred it to DLT?

I know we had um several meetings with them to talk over their program, their experiences, and the process.

We've also the legislation required us to hold a quarterly task force meeting with DCWP and the Department of City Planning, and we've been doing that since the legislation passed.

Because I believe I've I've been told that I guess the rules in the current program are not, you know, a mere image of what it was prior to local 121.

And so having the um learn lessons from the previous program, I'm wondering how DLT use that information to determine what the rules would be for this current program.

Right.

So I think again, the sticking point are some of the requirements that are just in the charter and the local law.

So even understanding some of those issues didn't necessarily mean we could avoid them.

So in terms of the pedestrian clear path, I think the first deputy commissioner alluded to this a little bit, but we did um this the agency conducted or released the pedestrian mobility plan that did a modeling analysis throughout the city to identify streets that have higher pedestrian traffic versus streets with lower pedestrian traffic and recommended pedestrian clear paths for different types of corridors based on those usage uses.