§ 10-131. Generally.

(a)

A sidewalk cafe shall be conducted as an accessory or incidental use to a legally established restaurant or other eating and drinking establishment that is located on a contiguous adjacent parcel and which is under the same management and which shares the same name, food preparation facilities, restroom facilities and other customer conveniences. Sidewalk dining may not constitute more than 50 percent of the total seating capacity of the associated restaurant.

(b)

The majority of the area in which the sidewalk cafe will be operated shall be on the public sidewalk directly in front of the indoor restaurant which operates the cafe and/or to the side of the business and building if it is located on a corner lot. That area of the public sidewalk which would be enclosed by a perpendicular projection of the indoor restaurant's sidewalk frontage over the sidewalk shall be considered as being directly in front of the indoor restaurant.

(Ord. No. 25-98, § 1B, C, 6-1-1998)

State law reference

Local regulation of places of amusement, G.S. 160A-181.