One day into the start of the outdoor dining season in Boston, the list of restaurant applicants is continuing to grow, Mayor Michelle Wu said Tuesday afternoon.

The city has approved 26 new applications to start outdoor dining programs this season, Wu said. Eleven more are in the final stage of approval, and 50 are in review.

The kick-off of the season this year has been different than previous years, with accessibility and other requirement leniencies under the pandemic no longer in effect and outdoor dining now largely banned in the North End.

The city is continuing to take applications on a rolling basis with no cutoff date, Wu said, and has streamlined the process “in a very significant way” to keep applications moving.

The number of applications continues to grow at a fast pace, the mayor said, with 25 of the applications under review submitted in the last few days.

The city already has over 300 outdoor dining locations mapped on its website.

Gov. Maura Healey on Monday named Will Rasky to serve as her administration’s director of federal affairs, a post that is based in Washington, D.C.

The governor’s office said that Rasky will serve as “point person to the Biden-Harris Administration as well as Congress, working closely with the Massachusetts delegation to help advance the state’s interests.”

Rasky has been working as advisor for governmental affairs in U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s office. He started his new job on Monday while Healey was attending the Select USA Investment Summit in Washington, D.C.

A Boston College graduate and former Boston Red Sox usher, Rasky has worked for numerous political candidates during his career and also worked with his father, the late Larry Rasky.