City considers ordinance change for dog-friendly restaurants

Crossfire Bulldogs · 02-15-2006, 07:10 AM

News 8 - By: News 8 Austin Staff

Two Austin City Council members proposed an ordinance chance to allow dogs on patio restaurants.

Freshmen council members Jennifer Kim and Lee Leffingwell announced their proposal to change the city's restaurant code at a press conference on Friday. It would give restaurants the option to allow dogs on patios.

The city council will consider the amendment at next week's council meeting. Kim said it's partly a response to restaurants that were taking extreme measures to let dogs in.

"The state has its own health code and the city just adopted that wholesale, and one of the provisions is they only make exception for seeing eye dogs. And actually, I hear that one of the restaurants [Freddie’s in South Austin] is having to deputize dogs as guides to allow them on the patio. Instead of requiring people to do that, we are amending it to allow dogs on patios in Austin," Kim said.

Kim and Leffingwell made the announcement at Opal Divine's restaurant, which has been drumming up support for the amendment among its clientele. The staff has already gathered more than 800 signatures in just two months.

The American Veterinary Medical Association estimates that nearly 100,000 households in Austin have dogs.

Novel · 02-15-2006, 10:47 AM

I would love to be able to take my dogs to restaurants... Europe for the most part allows this, don't they?

mulroony · 02-15-2006, 12:29 PM

I don't know about Europe (although I think Denmark or Sweden might), but cafes and places in Chicago w/ non-inclosed outside seating usually allow your pup to sit with you. As long as you do not bring them in and they are not an inconvience most places I have been are really nice.

Novel · 02-15-2006, 02:10 PM

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Originally Posted by mulroony

I don't know about Europe (although I think Denmark or Sweden might), but cafes and places in Chicago w/ non-inclosed outside seating usually allow your pup to sit with you. As long as you do not bring them in and they are not an inconvience most places I have been are really nice.

Any place specific, you can PM me if you'd like Mulroony.

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mulroony Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Champaign, IL Posts: 2,100 Rep Power: 119	I don't know about Europe (although I think Denmark or Sweden might), but cafes and places in Chicago w/ non-inclosed outside seating usually allow your pup to sit with you. As long as you do not bring them in and they are not an inconvience most places I have been are really nice.
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