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Almost exactly a year ago, homebound, stir-crazy Bostonians learned they’d soon get a break from Covid-era isolation. Two months into a state stay-at-home advisory, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced that restaurants would be allowed to seat diners again — outdoors. There was just one problem: In the city’s densely packed neighborhoods and inner-ring suburbs, with people living on top of each other and jostling for every square inch, where could restaurants find outdoor spaces for socially distanced dining? In Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston, city traffic officials had…
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