Fiscal Note
Minimal Increase in General Revenue Fund.
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Amending Section 9.13(6)(e)2., deleting Section 9.13(6)(h)4., renumbering Section 9.13(6)(h)5., amending Sections 9.13(6)(j)1.b. and c., and creating Section 9.13(6)(j)4. of the Madison General Ordinances to create procedures for non-street level restaurants to have a sidewalk cafe on the State Street Mall/Capitol Concourse, creating a priority system for assigning merchant vending and sidewalk cafe sites between businesses on different levels of the same building, and amending related licensing requirements.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
1. Paragraph 2. entitled "Contiguously Located Street Level, or Corresponding non Street-level Merchant" of Subdivision (e) entitled "Definitions" of Subsection (6) entitled "Regulations and Procedures for Vending on the State Street Mall/Capitol Concourse" of Section 9.13 entitled "License For Selling On Public Streets" of the Madison General Ordinances is amended to read as follows:
"2. a. Contiguously Located Street Level, or Corresponding non Street-level Merchant or Restaurant. A merchant or restaurant is considered to be "contiguously located, "street level" if its place of business is located on the ground floor of a building with a street address that abuts a public sidewalk and there is space on that sidewalk that is not otherwise prohibited for vending by the Madison General Ordinances.
b. Corresponding Non Street-Level Merchant or Restaurant. A Contiguously located street level, or merchant or restaurant is considered to be a corresponding non street-level, merchant means a business whose place of business is located on the ground floor abutting the sidewalk or if it is located in the same building as a contiguously located street level merchant business, but not on the ground floor. provided the business has available to it sidewalk space immediately adjacent to the street level merchant's business wh...
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