Council Member Rivera Questions DOT on Pending Applications and Scaling Capacity

And so it's it's been a little bit difficult to ask that they be in compliance if their plans have technically not been reviewed and approved yet.

So, how are you dealing with with that description?

And we are working with those restaurants, so the clearances should be um very clear to them about what they need to do, but being they haven't completely gone through the process, we will we will correct them, we will notify them if we see an issue until such time they've gotten through the whole process.

Okay.

Um I appreciate the time.

I I don't want to go over, I just want to say that I know the number 8,000 was brought up as during the pandemic, how many operators there were.

Do you think that DOT or that the administration can scale up to handle a number that is closer to 8,000 rather than the three to four thousand that we're saying?

We would like to see the number continue to grow and we can handle it.

Okay, I appreciate that because I I'm I'm sympathetic to the demands on your agency.

We want to be fair to residents and businesses, and I know the businesses want to be celebrated by their neighbors.

And I think year-round, I second all the things the chair said um would be really really instrumental to the program.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Okay, thank you very much for your testimony today.