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FOR SECOND READING —December 5, 2005 Revised November 29, 2005 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 28 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE (1990), AS AMENDED, TO REVISE REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO STREET VENDORS AND THE OPERATION OF OUTDOOR CAFES BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia, that Sections 28-2, 28-30,28-112,28-116,28-119,28-121,28-211,28-212,28-213,28-214 and 28-216, of the Charlottesville City Code, 1990, as amended, are hereby amended and reordained, as follows: ARTICLE I. IN GENERAL Sec. 28-2. Definitions. of "streets." (a) The term "streets," when used in this chapter, shall mean public streets, sidewalks, walkways, alleys, lanes and highways of the city, except where by the context or by reasonable intent sidewalks or walkways are not included. (b) For the purposes of this aAiek-chapter, the term "Downtown Pedestrian Mall" shall mean and refer to the brick -paved area of Main Street, bounded by Ridge -McIntire Road on the west and 7th Street, S.E. on the east. The Downtown Pedestrian Mall shall be designated on a map approved by the city manager and • maintained available for public inspection within the city's department of neighborhood development services. c) For the nurooses of this chaoter, the term "fire lane" shall have the same meaning as the term "fire apparatus access road," as defined within the Virginia Statewide Fire Prevention Code. With respect to the downtown mall and the side streets leading to the downtown mall, fire lanes shall be designated on a mat) anoroved by the citv's fire official and maintained available for public inspection within the city's department of neighborhood development services d) The term "pedestrian walkwav" when used in this chaoter, shall mean an area improved for public pedestrian travel, such as a sidewalk. With respect to the Downtown Pedestrian Mall, all areas designated and reserved for public pedestrian travel shall be designated on a map approved by the city manager and maintained available for Dublic inspection within the citv's department of neighborhood develot)ment services Sec. 28-30. Restricted use of city streets. No activity conducted by any person in or upon any city streets or rights-of-way shall be located where such activity: (1) Would block access to the entrance to any adjacent building or driveway; (2) Would occupy more than half of the ..vaiiati n�a �hidewa'„ width of any pedestrian walkway. or would obstruct the free and orderlv flow of pedestrian traffic within an pedestrian walkway; •