Chair Brooks-Powers Questions DOT on Roadway Cafe Review Process
Chair Selvena Brooks-Powers asks DOT to detail the review process for roadway cafes, including public hearing requirements and charter-mandated advertising timelines.
We forward thing we forward the application to the affected community board and city council member who have 30 days to comment and submit comments to us.
We then hold the public hearing, which, as I mentioned before, um this public hearing is a charter requirement.
It requires three weeks of advertising notices in the city record as well as two newspaper ads that have to be paid for by the applicant according to the city charter.
Um, but we try to overlap the public hearing notice advertising period with the community board review time to try to make it as efficient as possible.
We hold our public hearing.
If everything goes well, then we approve the application, send it out for execution, comes back, goes to Mox, the compstroller.
And then we issue the license.
Thank you for that.
And how are you prioritizing the pending applications?
So what we did first was we looked at the roadway applications in order to get them moving because we knew that any sidewalk applicant that had applied by the August 3rd deadline was going to be able to operate.
So we took care of the roadway ones first and started them on the process, and then we had moved on to the sidewalk applications next.
Aside from inadequate site plans, what are some common issues applicants face in the preliminary review stage?