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Re:What a progressive utopia does to outdoor dining by PaulDavisThe1st on Monday December 13, 2021 @06:34PM (#29546191)
> I don't think anyone is proposing a nightclub or bar scene on the sidewalk. These are people sitting at tables eating dinner.

I'm generally in favor of all this stuff. Neverthless, I did see an article in either The Guardian about complaints from residents in London (I think) regarding the expansion of sidewalk dining because it tends to up being not "just people sitting at tables eating dinner". Then there's this NYT recently about similar questions in NYC:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/nyregion/outdoor-dining-n...

Re:What a progressive utopia does to outdoor dining by llampx on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @05:18AM (#29550137)
Where I live, restaurants have to be quiet after past 10pm both indoors and outdoors if they have outdoor tables for example on the sidewalk or terrace. I've been told off for talking too loudly in a group of 4 when sitting outside so a bigger group of loudmouth drunks would certainly be thrown out or told to come indoors. I think this is a non-issue. Not to mention that most restaurants like this are anyway in dense neighborhoods which have a higher noise floor.