STONE HARBOR – Dining outdoors in this borough may be allowed if Borough Council consents and passes a resolution on its June 5 agenda.
The measure has already won Planning Board approval, as attested in a May 22 letter from Patricia H. Wagner, board secretary. It came the day after the Planning Board approved the proposal.
The resolution amends Chapter 560 of the borough ordinances regulating outdoor dining.
New section of the ordinance would regulate “outdoor tables.”
Those tables “may be placed on private property in connection with a restaurant or other food service business in the Business District without the need for site plan review or prior zoning approval
No table service “shall be provided, and tables cannot exceed 27 inches in length or 30 inches in diameter. The number of outdoor tables cannot exceed ‘the lesser of one table for each 32 square feet of ground area of four tables,’ and tables and surrounding area are not available for the consumption of alcoholic beverages.”
