Banning outdoor dining venues businesses forced to build

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com

Portland is banning restaurant outdoor structures in the Pearl District that have walls and a roof.

While other states resumed restaurants within months after Covid started, Oregon took YEARS to fully eliminate all their business restrictions.

As a result, many restaurants spent thousands of dollars building outdoor dining.

Now the City is saying to them — shut them down.

Roofs on these structures are now illegal — but do we not live in Oregon where it rains all the time?

Portland is planning to remove the dining areas while at the same time raising parking meter fees by 25% and doubling the Uber tax.  Less dining, more taxes = less customers.

Here is one Portland restaurant that put up their outdoor dining and painted it with graffiti so their business would not be hit (it didn’t work)