- June 22, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Businesses in downtown Danville may be allowed to continue operating outdoors for the remainder of the year, now that the Town Council has indicated its intent to extend the policy instituted earlier in the pandemic.
After an hour of public comment during Tuesday’s council meeting, council members directed staff to prepare an ordinance that would allow the use of temporary outdoor seating permits through Jan. 3, 2022, with the potential to expand the policies again after that.
“Clearly, this falls into my no-brainer category. Let’s take this to the end of the year; let’s give us some time to come up with a master plan,” Councilman Robert Storer said during the meeting.
“When everybody stumbled, we tried to right the ship and I think that honestly we did a good job. Now today, clearly we’re not out of the woods yet,” he added. “These parklets have been such a huge help to businesses and naturally along the way our downtown residents fell in love with this…
