If you’ve grabbed a meal on a sunny afternoon in downtown Danville over the last few years, there’s a decent chance you were sitting in what used to be a parking spot.
Those wooden platforms with string lights, planters, and café tables tucked along Hartz Avenue didn’t exist before 2020. Now they’re such a fixture of the downtown dining scene that it’s easy to forget they were never supposed to be permanent.
That temporary status is about to become very relevant. The Danville Town Council is set to debate the past, present, and future of the town’s downtown parklet program in a study session, weighing the options ahead of the program’s upcoming expiration at the start of next year…