Council Member Brewer Questions DOT on Street Cleaning and Paving Coordination
Council Member Gale Brewer asks DOT how the agency coordinates street cleaning and road paving around active roadway dining setups.
They had no idea.
I mean, you and I might know because of the insignia in the window, but believe me, they didn't know.
Right.
Can we be a second round?
I have more questions.
I don't want to take other time.
Go ahead, go ahead.
Um the other question I have is just in terms of the you heard earlier about the street cleaning.
Um obviously that was a concern before.
So what how would you know road paving or other issues?
How are we gonna make sure that there is cleanliness?
Obviously, the ones who are here earlier in terms of the restaurants, they keep it clean.
But how are you working with sanitation on that issue?
We understand there won't be the underneath for the rats.
I got that, but you know, it's other things.
How how how are we gonna work on that?
Okay, the restaurant is required to clean all the way around their setup.
Okay, who's gonna monitor that though, Margaret?
So sanitation is still monitoring that, and if they see an issue, they can violate issue of violation to the restaurant, or they can tell us and we can get involved as well.
And then as you mentioned, the floors are removable for easy cleaning.
You mentioned paving.
That's why the setups needed also to be removable with water filled barriers.
They're much easier to empty and move if we're coming through to pave.
We don't want a situation where we're paving around to setup.
We want to pave the street from curb to curb.
Okay, and the other thing was the restaurant that talked about the fees.
Um I know you said that you need to have that discussion about the uh architectural drawings that need to be more complicated than what what do you think the fee should be?