Los Angeles will assist businesses to apply for the permanent Al Fresco program.
On a recent afternoon, Camila Perry was walking around the parking lot behind The Oaks Tavern bar and restaurant in Sherman Oaks, holding a measuring tape.
Perry is among more than 3,000 business owners in L.A., from the San Fernando Valley in the north to San Pedro in the south who took advantage of the city’s Al Fresco program at the beginning of the pandemic and now scramble to get a permanent permit by December 31 to keep using sidewalks and parking lots adjacent to their businesses.
Los Angeles launched its COVID-era Al Fresco program during the pandemic in 2020 to assist thousands of small business owners and boost economic vitality when widespread fear kept many customers from dining indoors. The city departments that assist small businesses with the Al Fresco program have agreed to review and process all completed applications within 30 days of the date of submission. The departments will also participate in webinars, virtual meetings, or application clinics to assist project applicants and restaurant owners with Al Fresco guidelines to troubleshoot project and site plan issues, according to the mayor’s office.
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