Downtown Turlock is known for its wide selection of restaurants, many of which provide outdoor dining for customers allowing them to soak in the sights and sounds of the city while they enjoy a meal. The canopies, awnings and other outdoor seating arrangements of select downtown businesses will soon be in jeopardy, however, as the City of Turlock is taking a look at structures that are noncompliant with a new outdoor dining permit. According to Deputy Director of Development Services and Planning Manager Debbie Whitmore, the Planning Department has been working to update the City’s outdoor dining permit, and in doing so collaborated with the Turlock Downtown Property Owners Association in order to determine what design practices would be best for future downtown dining establishments.