Plateau to allow year-round terrasses
Plateau borough is to allow year-round terrasses, as of next winter. But these terrasses can’t extend into the street, so there won’t be too many establishments with room to set them up.
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DeWolf 14:33 on 2021-01-16 Permalink
That’s just one change in a rather sweeping reform, which the borough outlined in a press release:
1) The Plateau is doing away with its restrictions on how far apart bars and restaurants must be from one another. This has apparently led to speculation and high rents on the retail outlets authorized to host an eatery. Instead there will be a quota on the number of bars/restos allowed in any given area and they can open in any suitable space within that area, even if it’s next to an existing bar/resto.
2) Larger terraces will be permitted, kind of like that we saw last summer. Terraces can occupy the space in front of neighbouring businesses (with their consent).
3) More intense commercial activity will be permitted on Rachel between Berri and Lafontaine Park.
4) The maximum possible size of bars and restaurants will be expanded in areas where they had been restricted.
5) Terrasses will be allowed on streets where they had been prohibited, including Laurier East and Fairmount.
6) A new café category of business licence will be created to accommodate restaurants that had been operating under an épicerie or traiteur licence, which restricted the amount of seating they could have. Apparently many of these restaurants had been exceeding the maximum amount of seats which left them vulnerable to fines.
7) A new “craft brewery” category of licence has been created. I guess this didn’t exist before which explains why the Plateau has no breweries other than RJ. The borough says in a press release that it’s hoping to attract more breweries (which could probably make good use of the industrial areas along the CPR tracks).
Press release: http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=7297,75337594&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&id=33280
DeWolf 14:47 on 2021-01-16 Permalink
Oh and I forgot another one:
8) Outdoor cooking will now be allowed on restaurant terrasses.
david855 15:25 on 2021-01-16 Permalink
Thanks for the summary. It’s a good start.
Joey 16:14 on 2021-01-16 Permalink
These are all great. Kinda hard to understand what took so long, tbh. Guess they ran out of ruelles to turn vertes.
Mark Côté 16:23 on 2021-01-16 Permalink
A bagel-shop-turned-Indian-restaurant here in NDG had a long fight to get a full restaurant permit… which, years later, they finally got just before covid hit. :\
Kate 18:42 on 2021-01-16 Permalink
Thanks for the exposition, DeWolf!