Accessibility should trump terrace bylaw, Bar Renard says

A Ville-Marie bar held a demonstration Monday evening to fight an urban planning bylaw that requires the bar to lower its terrace by about 10 inches.
The adjustment would make Bar Renard’s washrooms and the indoor part of the bar inaccessible to patrons in wheelchairs, owner Marc-Antoine Coulombe told the Montreal Gazette.
The bar, on Ste-Catherine St. E. near Beaudry St., has many customers with limited mobility, Coulombe said. While he said he understands lowering the terrace might make