CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 592Introduced by Assembly Member GabrielFebruary 12, 2025 An act relating to restaurants. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 592, as introduced, Gabriel. Restaurants: outdoor dining. Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a zoning ordinance and grant variances to the zoning ordinance when, because of special circumstances applicable to a property, the strict application of the zoning ordinance deprives the property of privileges enjoyed by other property in the vicinity and under identical zoning classification, as specified. Existing law, until July 1, 2026, requires a local jurisdiction that has not adopted an ordinance providing relief from parking restrictions for expanded outdoor dining areas to reduce the number of required parking spaces for existing uses by the number of spaces that the local jurisdiction determines are needed to accommodate an expanded outdoor dining area, to the extent that an outdoor expansion of a business to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on indoor dining interferes with, reduces, eliminates, or impacts required parking for existing uses.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to help restaurants, including extending outdoor dining permanently.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to help restaurants, including extending outdoor dining permanently.
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 592Introduced by Assembly Member GabrielFebruary 12, 2025 An act relating to restaurants. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 592, as introduced, Gabriel. Restaurants: outdoor dining. Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a zoning ordinance and grant variances to the zoning ordinance when, because of special circumstances applicable to a property, the strict application of the zoning ordinance deprives the property of privileges enjoyed by other property in the vicinity and under identical zoning classification, as specified. Existing law, until July 1, 2026, requires a local jurisdiction that has not adopted an ordinance providing relief from parking restrictions for expanded outdoor dining areas to reduce the number of required parking spaces for existing uses by the number of spaces that the local jurisdiction determines are needed to accommodate an expanded outdoor dining area, to the extent that an outdoor expansion of a business to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on indoor dining interferes with, reduces, eliminates, or impacts required parking for existing uses.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to help restaurants, including extending outdoor dining permanently.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20252026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 592
Introduced by Assembly Member GabrielFebruary 12, 2025
Introduced by Assembly Member Gabriel
February 12, 2025
An act relating to restaurants.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 592, as introduced, Gabriel. Restaurants: outdoor dining.
Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a zoning ordinance and grant variances to the zoning ordinance when, because of special circumstances applicable to a property, the strict application of the zoning ordinance deprives the property of privileges enjoyed by other property in the vicinity and under identical zoning classification, as specified. Existing law, until July 1, 2026, requires a local jurisdiction that has not adopted an ordinance providing relief from parking restrictions for expanded outdoor dining areas to reduce the number of required parking spaces for existing uses by the number of spaces that the local jurisdiction determines are needed to accommodate an expanded outdoor dining area, to the extent that an outdoor expansion of a business to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on indoor dining interferes with, reduces, eliminates, or impacts required parking for existing uses.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to help restaurants, including extending outdoor dining permanently.
Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or county to adopt a zoning ordinance and grant variances to the zoning ordinance when, because of special circumstances applicable to a property, the strict application of the zoning ordinance deprives the property of privileges enjoyed by other property in the vicinity and under identical zoning classification, as specified. Existing law, until July 1, 2026, requires a local jurisdiction that has not adopted an ordinance providing relief from parking restrictions for expanded outdoor dining areas to reduce the number of required parking spaces for existing uses by the number of spaces that the local jurisdiction determines are needed to accommodate an expanded outdoor dining area, to the extent that an outdoor expansion of a business to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on indoor dining interferes with, reduces, eliminates, or impacts required parking for existing uses.
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to help restaurants, including extending outdoor dining permanently.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to help restaurants, including extending outdoor dining permanently.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to help restaurants, including extending outdoor dining permanently.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to help restaurants, including extending outdoor dining permanently.
SECTION 1. It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to help restaurants, including extending outdoor dining permanently.
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