Proposed revisions to Duluth's alcoholic beverage ordinance forwarded to city council for more discussion.
The Duluth Alcohol Review Board at its meeting Monday night directed the city attorney and city staff to incorporate suggestions to a proposed revision of the city’s alcohol beverage ordinance and forward it to the city council for discussion later this month. Among the suggestions is allowing outdoor consumption of alcoholic beverages purchased from restaurants in the downtown “red zone” on weekends. Other proposed changes include allowing a new category of taverns to operate downtown, allowing growler shops to sell beer samples, allowing wine, beer and malt beverage tastings in grocery stores, and allowing overflow restaurant patrons to take their cocktails, beer and wine outside in designated areas while they wait for tables. Also, more…
Alcohol Review Board recommends city council consider expanding 'red zone' consumption to all year instead of just during city-sponsored alcohol-sanctioned events.
The Duluth Alcohol Review Board has recommended that the city council allow residents and visitors to consume alcoholic beverages purchased from downtown restaurants in the “red zone” all year long. Currently the city’s alcoholic beverage ordinance limits this practice to city-sponsored alcohol-sanctioned events, such as concerts, or about a dozen times a year. The Duluth City Council changed the ordinance in October 2010 to provide for issuance of special event patio sales permits to restaurants in the two-block red zone that had licenses to sell alcoholic beverages. The permits allow patrons of these restaurants to leave with alcoholic beverages purchased there for consumption in the designated zone, which includes the Town Green, during…
Dusty Graham
11:18 am on Monday, August 6, 2012
The changes to the massage ordinance will be discussed again tonight. http://duluthcityga.iqm2.com/Citizens/default.aspx has a copy of the agenda with a copy of the marked up ordinance. I see that the definition for restaurant has been changed to require preparation and service of food to five days a week instead of the current six. I have to ask why the limitation is there. The six day … more ›