Plans for the shuttered Bistro 101 restaurant at 909 Prospect St. are emerging but the permits needed for the sidewalk café have put a dent in the process. Businessman Oved Haskal plans to open a sidewalk café called Aroma Bakery and a restaurant called Barfly in the large space that was once home to Hard Rock Cafe. Haskal described Barfly as a Cheesecake Factory-type restaurant with an extended menu serving Italian and Middle Eastern food. The problem is that Haskal’s sidewalk café wouldn’t leave eight feet of sidewalk as required by the La Jolla Planned District Ordinance (PDO) — the Village’s guide to development. Trustees of the La Jolla Community Planning Association (LJCPA) seemed to like the sidewalk café but didn’t want to undermine the PDO by favoring an individual project. It would set a bad precedent for the future, indicated trustee David Little. The LJCPA voted 12-3-1 to reject the project at the April 1 meeting. A city hearing officer will take the LJCPA vote into consideration when deciding on the project. “How do we want La Jolla to look in the future?” asked trustee Rob Whittemore. “Do we want pedestrian-friendly establishments with room to move on the sidewalk? … The people who wrote the PDO gave it a lot of thought and I’d defer to their judgment.” The city municipal code only requires a six-foot sidewalk but trustees indicated the PDO supersedes the municipal code. Haskal was furious. He said there are plenty of sidewalk cafes operating in the Village without leaving eight feet of sidewalk to pedestrians.