Today's letters: Support business, not bureaucracy

Keep the street patios intact
Re: Better ‘access’ bylaw could mean last call for La Roma’s patio, July 15; and Ottawa restaurant La Roma finds patio compromise, July 18.
I was shocked and dismayed to read of the plight of La Roma restaurant, which, until this week, was facing the possibility of losing 32 of its 40 patio seats because of the city’s unwillingness to exempt it from a new bylaw requiring two metres of barrier-free access along the public sidewalk. The pa