JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 For Trey Lopez, sitting outside to have breakfast at Another Broken Egg Cafe in Tapestry Park is just part of his routine. He loves it for two reasons: the food and seeing people\u2019s pets. <\/p>\n
\u201cI often ask if I can pet those dogs or pets, whatever is brought in,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cIt brings me joy.\u201d<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Under Florida Statutes, there is a local exemption to the rule about dogs not being allowed to enter public food establishments. It allows local cities and counties to create a permitting process to allow dogs into designated outdoor areas.<\/p>\n Statutes & Constitution: View Statutes: Online Sunshine<\/a> <\/p>\n However, it wasn\u2019t until last week that the Jacksonville city council voted to establish a new permitting system and guidelines for restaurant owners who want to allow dogs on their patios. <\/p>\n \u201cHonestly, I\u2019m quite surprised Jacksonville didn\u2019t have a process in place, but I\u2019m happy to see that they have put one in place,\u201d Lopez said.<\/p>\n The new ordinance states that restaurant owners would have to submit a free permit application with the City\u2019s Planning department. <\/p>\n Once approved, the restaurant is required to place signs at the entrance of the patios notifying people that dogs are allowed.<\/p>\n For animal lovers like Trey, he\u2019s just grateful that he can continue to see pets when he eats out. <\/p>\n \u201cTo all the pet lovers out there, we\u2019d like to thank you, Jacksonville, for identifying the gap, shoring it up, and now bringing a process and allowing pets to officially be in restaurants,\u201d Lopez said.<\/p>\n You can read the other rules and regulations that restaurants approved for this permit would have to follow on Page 2 of the permit applications shown below.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 For Trey Lopez, sitting outside to have breakfast at Another Broken Egg Cafe in Tapestry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[982,62717,187,28,969,13815,116,118,117,18638,634,644,656,62715,62718,62716],"class_list":{"0":"post-126743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-action_news","9":"tag-broken_egg","10":"tag-city","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-jack","13":"tag-jack_madison_foglio","14":"tag-jacksonville","15":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","16":"tag-jacksonville-news","17":"tag-jacksonville_city_council","18":"tag-local","19":"tag-madison","20":"tag-madison_foglio","21":"tag-tapestry_park","22":"tag-trey","23":"tag-trey_lopez"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}