PASSED

The enacted ordinance allows licensed sidewalk cafés on Chestnut Street and Walnut Street between Broad Street and 18th Street without requiring a zoning certificate under the Center City commercial-area rules. It requires these cafés to be directly next to a restaurant that uses more than 25% of its interior space for seating, and requires all food served there to be on non-disposable containers.

Amending Section 14-1607 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Special Controls for the Center City Commercial Area" by providing that nothing in that section shall prohibit the maintenance of, licensed sidewalk cafés along certain portions of Chestnut street and Walnut street and amending Section 9-208 of The Philadelphia Code entitled "Sidewalk Cafes", by requiring the main restaurant use more than twenty five percent (25%) of its interior gross floor area for seating and that all food served be on non-disposable containers.