Restaurant patios open to midnight

Vancouver restaurants with outdoor patios on city streets will be allowed to extend their opening hours under a pilot program approved by city council Wednesday. Under the terms restaurants that have no complaints in the previous 12 months will be allowed to keep the patios open until midnight, from April to October. It affects restaurants operating 277 small and 316 large patios. The pilot is part of a plan by the city to modernize its street-vending bylaw. The bylaw also includes banning the sub-lease of permits and locations to other vendors. Last month the city became aware that nearly one-third of the 110 stationary food vending permits it had recently issued through a lottery system were being sub-leased by the original applicants to other vendors. In some cases, the licences, which cost $1,100, were being re-rented for $10,000 a year.

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Restaurant patios open to midnight