Marte questions DOT on SLA enforcement at outdoor dining establishments

And I know we've talked to DOT a number of times about this, but the SLA has stipulations that they make with the community board on, like, whether they have windows opens, close, hours of serving drinks.

However, a lot of times, and we've done walkthrough in my district, and I know Councilmember Epstein has done walkthrough in his district, where we see people take advantage of, you know, whether it's sidewalk or the roadside dining, to continue to serve liquor when the SLA,

you know, says they can't, or whether they made an agreement with the community board that they shouldn't.

What can DOT do to make sure that the agreements that are made in the community board or with the SLA are actually monitored and enforced on both the sidewalk and roadside?

So that's a great question.

It's kind of a tricky question because the SLA requirements are outside of the SLA licenses are outside of our jurisdiction, right?

It's a state entity.

Like we don't have the authorization to enforce that.

And so I have a quick follow up.

So.

Because they do a lot of stipulations with the community board during the SLA process of how an establishment is going to function and look like,

would DOT be able to respect or promote or advocate to the owner of that establishment to do stuff in accordance to those agreements that have been made in the past?

I think it would depend at a minimum on what those requirements were, what those stipulations were, because I know there's certain language in the legislation that prevents us from enforcing certain things like hours of operation.

And those agreements, some of those stipulations I understand are things like hours of operation, and they wouldn't necessarily...

align.

And so anything that conflicts with the legislation or the rules, we would not be able to enforce.

Thank you.