City planners will explore making it easier to open spaces like cafes and coffee trucks in Austin neighborhoods.

“This item really is about more than coffee shops, it’s about community. It’s about getting out of our cars and having space that people can enjoy whether it is that morning cup of coffee or have somewhere where they can walk with their kids," council member Ryan Alter, the measure's sponsor, said Oct. 10.

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Alter said he's pushing to streamline the addition of the kinds of smaller businesses that are less commonly found in Austin than elsewhere. His resolution referenced the Littlefield’s patio in West Austin and Desnudo coffee trucks in locations like an East Austin food truck park as examples of what he's hoping to see more of around town.

“We’ve had

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