Under the settlement agreement, the 33-seat patio (no standees) must shut down by 10p each weekday night and midnight on weekends (the owner Dave Batista earlier had hoped to open until 11p/1a, but this is a reasonable compromise). In a nod to technology, the commonly-imposed DC ban on outdoor speakers was expanded to direct the bar to “restrict patrons from using electronic devices as speakers to play music”- in other words, no impromptu iPod/iPad/bluetooth speaker dance parties. Interestingly, ABRA disallowed out the local ANC’s requirement that All Souls’ outdoor chairs/table not be made out of metal; the agreement’s requirement for a three-foot planter buffer between fence and sidewalk remains. The original agreement-made only with a group of neighbors-did not include approval for an outside patio, though it did not necessarily forbid it either.