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City says no to patio in alley
Saturday, July 28, 2007
By Robert Vitale
A Downtown restaurant has been ordered to remove a patio it started building in the middle of a city street.
Officials with the Department of Public Service said they never gave the owners of Brownstone on Main permission to take over an 80-foot section of Lazelle Street, an alleyway next to the restaurant building on E. Main.
Brownstone owners began construction sometime in May, according to neighbors. A foundation of concrete and stone sits there today, blocking traffic between E. Main and Cherry streets.
Public Service Director Mark Kelsey told Brownstone co-owner Jeffrey A. Gilliam in a letter July 20 to halt construction of the patio and restore Lazelle Street “to the safe and convenient use of the traveling public” within 15 days.
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City orders Brownstone to rip up new patio
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Those dispatch reporters use such droll headlines… :(
How about “Brownstone patio land grab denied” or as I thought when I read it…”File this under WTF”
Speaking of WTF, since you’re adjusting the forums Walker, how about a Local WTF topic forum for Columbus? I’m sure there’s no shortage of material. :D
I ran into this pario under construction two weeks ago and was too confused. It is actually sitting on the street. Maybe it is a protest .
Lazelle is an alley right there, so I don’t think the patio really hurts anything by taking it over. They should just go ahead and shut down the whole alley section there and make it a pedestrian walkway instead.
what the hell were they thinking, i don’t feel sorry for them. is there any room for a smaller one?
Yeah, unless there’s a helluva lot more to this story (like miscommunication over the permits, etc.) this may be the stupidest move I’ve ever heard of.
I mean, I could even see building out into the sidewalk maybe and thinking “no big deal”…but to start building a patio on a city street???
I think that technically it is a street albiet a narrow one. It is public land. What was Brownstone thinking? Numnutz.
LOL…you’ve been to my house Walk, it’s basically on an alley…doesn’t mean I’d build a gazebo in front of my house and just think it’s OK!!!
The alley they’ve taken over was between their building and a parking lot. It’s not a residential street in the least.
The same sort of alleyway blockcade can be found all over downtown. Just along High Street alone, you can’t enter the alleys of Hickory St, Layfayette St, Elm St, Lynn St, Cherry St, Noble St, etc. And that’s not hurting any of those surrounding businesses, is it?
I don’t know man, still seems completely insane to start pouring concrete on a city street…dead end or not…without any kind of permit.
Those blocked passages up High St. are public works though. Brownstone was building a private patio for customers by simply taking over a fogotten street. It does not matter if thier are residences of businesses or parking lots around.
You can not just go build crap in the public right-of-way.
I was really taken back and confused when I saw this happening two weeks ago.
I’m not trying to advocate overthrowing the government and taking over the streets. I’m just saying that the street was barely used before and that a patio there (with proper permits) would probably be a better use of the space.
The fact that they started work on this is May and it took two months for the city to say something should be a pretty good indication that the street is underused as is.
I like it. It’s like the Old West- they’ve staked their claim. :D
Maybe Bodega should expand its patio too.
And the Rhodes tower needs more room for smokers, so they should grab a few lanes of Broad St.
Walker Underground Ranger. I did not know you were such an advocate of lawlessness. Cities are for citizens. Citizens are civil. Civility is in line with the law.
Cool, I am going to find your house and build a pork rind factory in your backyard and maybe a treehouse too.
Walker is a wild card- and very calculated. I bet he has killed a man. You can see it in his eyes- thus his advocacy for lawlessness doesn’t surprise me.
…in Reno, just to watch him die.
Since the Mayor has a table named after him at the Brownstone b/c he frequents there so much, do you think they were counting on him for some executive power/privledge?
It doesn’t surprise me that it took the city that long to contact them about it. The city of Columbus moves very slowly in my experience when roadway/utilities issues are concerned. Snow removal last winter anyone???
Speaking of killers… haven’t seen Jon Ros posting lately. I wonder if he is in jail.
But, back to topic. I like the Brownstone’s food, but you can’t just slap a patio down in the middle of the road and expect no one to notice.
It doesn’t surprise me that it took the city that long to contact them about it. The city of Columbus moves very slowly in my experience when roadway/utilities issues are concerned. Snow removal last winter anyone???
LOL…that or after too many cocktails at said table, the mayor said “bah, just build it…I’ll take care of everything”…and then forgot.
Worse! He’s been spending all of his time lately in Plain City!!!
Apparently, most of us weren’t reading his blog blog.