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Shops and restaurants are expanding their operations to offer indoor retail (starting today) and outdoor dining on sidewalks and parking spaces. If you don’t have any plans this weekend, consider taking a stroll downtown to experience new shopping and dining options and support our San Rafael businesses.   Many of the products you need can be purchased right here in San Rafael. We recently installed more bike racks throughout … Continued

WATCH VIDEO San Rafael restaurants are excited to bring more outdoor dining to the community and we’re excited to be helping them hit the ground running!  We created new, free permit types to accommodate businesses who want to use the sidewalk, plaza, or parking space in front of their business for outdoor dining and retail.  Interested in dining outside at one of your favorite San Rafael restaurants? Not … Continued

This week, we worked with various City departments to create a free and automatic temporary encroachment permit that will allow businesses to use the sidewalk or plaza space in front of their business for outdoor dining or retail. Next week we plan to offer businesses the option to use parking spaces in front of their businesses as an additional outdoor dining location option.   In addition, we’re building a crowd-sourced restaurant map so diners can easily find … Continued

We know how important it is for our San Rafael Businesses to reopen, so we’ve partnered with the San Rafael Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Business Improvement District to support our incredible business community as best as possible.  Over the weekend we created a free and automatic temporary permit process for businesses to use the sidewalk space in front of their … Continued

Progress continues! New guidelines have been posted to Marin Recovers allowing additional businesses (that follow specific criteria) to reopen Monday, June 1, 2020, including, outdoor retail, office space, outdoor dining, and curbside library services. We’ll be working to open our Downtown and Pickleweed libraries for curbside pickup beginning Wednesday, June 3rd – stay tuned! Additionally, more parks and beaches will be opening up to motorized access on June 1st. Marin County Parks has curated … Continued