5. Approval of amended Ordinances regarding temporty outdoor dining on public and private property, as well as regarding expanded mobile food unit operations (food trucks).
Thank you for allowing me to comment. Emporium Antiques has been a fixture in downtown Frederick for 35 years. The amount of complaints from our customers about the loss of parking spaces to "parklets" is unprecedented. Please do not extend this program. Besides the fact that parklets are highly unattractive, and people eating on a city street looks ridiculous. Merchants could not voice their displeasure to city leaders who used the "state of emergency" to pass this temporary measure without public comment or correct procedure. If you want downtown Frederick to look like a European City with lovely downtown sidewalk dining, then do it the right way. But for now, downtown needs its parking spaces back.
I see that 6 people commented in the general comments section regarding this issue. Please review these comments in context of Agenda Items 5,6, and 7. I believe when these comments were made, these agenda items had not been posted. Thank you.
Please see my comment listed in the Public Comments section, thanks.
Thank you for allowing me to comment. Emporium Antiques has been a fixture in downtown Frederick for 35 years. The amount of complaints from our customers about the loss of parking spaces to "parklets" is unprecedented. Please do not extend this program. Besides the fact that parklets are highly unattractive, and people eating on a city street looks ridiculous. Merchants could not voice their displeasure to city leaders who used the "state of emergency" to pass this temporary measure without public comment or correct procedure. If you want downtown Frederick to look like a European City with lovely downtown sidewalk dining, then do it the right way. But for now, downtown needs its parking spaces back.
I see that 6 people commented in the general comments section regarding this issue. Please review these comments in context of Agenda Items 5,6, and 7. I believe when these comments were made, these agenda items had not been posted. Thank you.