Efforts to respond to the restaurant community’s need to expand outdoor dining services in response to Governor Baker’s announcement that restaurants will be permitted to provide outdoor dining services at the commencement of Phase II of the Commonwealth’s Reopening Plan; and to request that the City Council vote to temporarily authorize me or my designee to issue all permits for temporary street obstructions, including Sidewalk Business Use Permits to restaurants that seek to operate outdoor dining on the sidewalk from this date until November 30, 2020 without prior City Council authorization, as explained below

ORDERED: That from June 8, 2020 to November 30, 2020, due to the significant adverse impacts the COVID-19 pandemic has had upon local businesses including restaurants and consistent with Governor Baker’s June 1, 2020 Order Clarifying the Progression of the Commonwealth’s Phased Workplace Re-Opening Plan and Authorizing Certain Re-Opening Preparations at Phase II Workplaces (the “Order”), which temporarily waives some of the time-consuming procedural requirements for restaurants that are licensed to sell alcoholic beverages for on- premises consumption that are applying to operate outdoor dining services, the requirement that the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission approve such requests, and zoning requirements that may prohibit outdoor dining services, all applications for temporary street obstructions are hereby referred to the City Manager with authorization to act.