Bill Text: CA AB592 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Restaurants: outdoor dining.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-13 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 15. [AB592 Detail]
Download: California-2025-AB592-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 592
| Introduced by Assembly Member Gabriel |
February 12, 2025 |
An act relating to restaurants.
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.
