An important part of Los Angeles’s highly-touted LA Al Fresco initiative has quietly been put on indefinite pause due to a lack of funding, says NBC 4. The program has been aimed at offering brick-and-mortar restaurants the opportunity to quickly expand outdoor seating into parking lots, sidewalks, and (in some limited cases) onto closed-off sections of public street, by offering no-cost design help, permit approvals, and physical infrastructure along the way. Now the program has reportedly been shelved for the time being, and nobody is quite sure when it might return.
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