As restaurants and other local retail businesses ponder how to stay open as people stay at home and social distance for the foreseeable future, parking regulations will likely be reevaluated—they already are in Cincinnati.
Chris Wetterich reports: "Cincinnati Councilman Chris Seelbach wants the city to offer free pick-up parking spaces next to and near restaurants in the city that currently have metered parking spaces in response to the ban on dine-in eating throughout Ohio because of the coronavirus 2019."
The pitch comes after Ohio shut down dine-in eating and drinking establishments over the weekend. The City Council was expected to consider the idea on Monday, but "Seelbach said the administration already is making plans to implement it," according to Wetterich.
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