After a debate, Oak Bay council re-approves Hide + Seek Coffee’s patio.
The owners of an Oak Bay cafe are happy that they were able to save their store’s patio, though they say they would have preferred avoiding the $2,000 in municipal fees and the council vote.
Oak Bay municipal staff had denied a renewal application for the six-metre long patio earlier this year because the structure intruded onto a nearby store’s street frontage, despite a letter of support for the patio from Neil Rogers, owner of the Timeless Toys store next door at 2213 Oak Bay Ave. “It screams bureaucracy and barriers that don’t support small business,” she said. “I am not someone that owns four pubs. I own two tiny cafes, I have eight staff — my payroll is everything that comes in and out.”
Watson also said the patio was “rather the poor cousin on the block” and that the design did not seem comfortable.
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