The owners of The Daisy restaurant have taken down their parklet to allow the City of Santa Barbara to stripe State Street to allow drop-offs at The Granada Theatre.

They didn’t entirely remove the parklet but shifted all the tables and chairs to a corner next to Arigato Sushi’s parklet. The parklet is unusable for now.

“I’ve now had to move my parklet and the street is being painted,” owner Dominic Shiach said, “but it’s only Tuesday morning, and there could be things happening unbeknownst to me.”

Shiach said he has communicated with City Councilmen Eric Friedman and Oscar Gutierrez, and they gave him hope that maybe he could keep the parklet or move the tables to the sidewalk, if the existing shrubs are removed.

“I felt I was being heard by the City Council,” Shiach said of his communications on Monday and Tuesday. “I hope it wasn’t merely lip service.”

Last Thursday, the day before the Veterans Day holiday, the city told Shiach and his wife, Carmen “Daisy” DeForest, to remove the parklet in front of their downtown restaurant, at 1221 State St.

The city needs to restripe the street to allow vehicle drop-offs in front of The Granada Theatre. Shiach said he was stunned. He was the only parklet notified, and he said he should have been given more notice than 30 minutes before a holiday weekend. The city said the parklet needed to be removed by Sunday.

The city plans to open the northbound lane on Thursday.

Earlier this fall, the City Council voted to allow bike lanes on State Street and one-way traffic going north to allow for drop-offs in front of The Granada Theatre, at 1214 State St.

“Council has expressed a desire to move forward expeditiously with pilot projects during the interim operations period,” said Sarah Clark, the city’s downtown parking and plaza manager.

Clark said the city previously notified the restaurants on the east side of the street that the new one-way vehicle lane would require the discontinuation of their outdoor business facilities.

Shiach said he hopes he can keep his parklet.

“For now anyway, I’m clinging on to scraps of hope, mainly because my landlord (SIMA Management LLC), who has a history of holding the city to account, is fighting my corner,” Shiach said.