Patios may soon be open later at more Vancouver restaurants

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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) A program allowing people to enjoy restaurant patios for an hour longer in Vancouver may be expanded come Wednesday.

Vancouver council will vote to open the trial up to more than 300 large patio restaurants.

Forty-six of the patios have taken it up so far but we have 316 large patios in the city so wed like to see this expand. Wed like to see it in neighbourhoods throughout the city so we can really test peoples ability to really run those patios well and make sure the neighbours are okay with it, says Vancouver City Councillor Heather Deal.

Hours would extend to midnight and the trial would run from April to October.

It also allows some restaurants, if they are in the right kind of area with the right kind of sidewalk, to apply to have their patio not right next to the building but perhaps across the sidewalk from it so that you can put the tables and chairs amongst things like street trees but leave the sidewalk open in between for people to walk.

Deal says most should be able to apply to take part but cant have a poor record of complaints.

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Patios may soon be open later at more Vancouver restaurants