Antioch, CA Special Events & Permits: Sidewalk Dining & Cafés (2026)

3823 requires any sidewalk cafe or outdoor food service accessory to a restaurant or dining establishment to be approved through a use permit issued by the Zoning Administrator; there is no by-right path to add outdoor seating to a restaurant frontage. Subsection (B) layers on a litter-control obligation specific to outdoor food service: fast food establishments and restaurants with outdoor dining must pick up and properly dispose of trash that originates from the facility and ends up off-site anywhere within a 400-foot radius of the property, and the operator must submit a written litter control plan describing how that cleanup will be carried out as part of the use permit application itself, not as an afterthought once the permit issues.

3823. Because the standard sits in the zoning code rather than a separate encroachment or health ordinance, an outdoor dining approval in Antioch also has to satisfy whatever public right-of-way encroachment and accessibility clearance the Public Works Department requires for tables placed on a public sidewalk, even though that clearance is not itself spelled out in this section.