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Allowing Businesses to Stick Out into Streets Safely

Official:Authorizing the installation, ownership and maintenance of right-of-way encroachments in various parts of the City, under certain terms and conditions.

Sponsors: Council President Johnson, Councilmember Gilmore Richardson

Introduced: March 5, 2026

Signed: March 26, 2026

: Committee on Streets and Services

infrastructure zoning

Plain-Language Summary

This bill would allow certain groups to install and maintain structures in public right-of-way areas, such as sidewalks or streets, under specific conditions.

What This Bill Does

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Allows the City to install and maintain decorative bells in public right-of-way areas, as specified in Exhibit A.
Requires the Department of Streets to establish standards and procedures for the installation and maintenance of these bells through regulation.
Mandates that permission to install and maintain the bells be subject to existing laws and regulations regarding encroachments, and that the Department of Streets incorporate necessary terms into implementing regulations with input from other City agencies.
Clarifies that the City's responsibility for the bells is extinguished only by their permanent removal or termination of an agreement between the City and the owner.