The Sassari City Council makes bar and restaurant owners happy: yesterday the assembly approved the new regulation of public land that includes many new features, among which, the most anticipated, is the doubling of the spaces available for outdoor seating.

But it is not the only one: there will also be the possibility of granting additional square footage in the suburbs and peripheral neighborhoods; it will be possible to obtain spaces on the opposite side of the street to all businesses that face onto a single-lane street, not just those where 30 zones have been established; the obligation to ask for the consent of condominiums or commercial businesses is abolished as long as tables and chairs are at least two meters away from shop windows or building doors ; slides, ramps and other structures aimed at removing architectural barriers will no longer be calculated in the square footage of public land granted, but as an extra that must measure a maximum of five linear meters.

The new regulation provides for the concession of public land also to artisanal activities : a measure adopted to support local trade, borrowing models already successfully tested elsewhere to accommodate the tendency to live and stay as much as possible in the open air. There is also news regarding arrears: from now on, whoever takes over or the owner of the property that hosts the activity will have to take on the payments not honoured by the previous manager of the commercial establishment.

Furthermore, with the new rules, the obligation to deposit a surety remains only for the owners of outdoor seating areas, but it will be worth 3 thousand euros instead of 5 thousand.

On a practical level, however, the green light is given to the creation of a connecting corridor between the entrance of the business and the outdoor space . Finally, it is established that the practices must not and cannot be subjected to politics: the release of the concession will no longer be tied to the prior communication to the council of the practice being defined.

(Online Union)

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