Enterprise council talks ‘entertainment district’ | Residence

Making an amusement district inside of city restrictions in the downtown place was talked about at the Company City Council July 6.

An ordinance to set up an leisure district and established forth regulations and polices governing the district was mentioned and will be voted on at the conference July 20.

Beneath the proposed ordinance, an space of a single-half mile by one particular-50 percent mile downtown designated as an entertainment district will be in outcome through the several hours of 11 a.m. right up until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays and from 5 right up until 11 p.m. on other times of the week, apart from Sunday. The amusement district designation will not be in effect on Sundays.

An leisure district designation enables prospects to get an open up container of liquor exterior of an establishment, as extensive as the buyer stays within the restrictions of the district. The ordinance prohibits a consumer from entering a licensed premise with an open up or closed container of alcoholic beverages acquired somewhere else.

Also, to go away a licensed premise in the leisure district with an alcoholic beverage, the beverage is required to be in a shatter-evidence container.

In March of this yr the metropolis of Ozark set up an leisure district in the space around the county courthouse downtown. The Headland Town Council unanimously passed an ordinance in April of this year setting up an amusement district.

In other business enterprise, the council voted to allow for town staff members a “paid personalized day” to be utilised amongst July and the end of December of this calendar year to compensate for the fact that with the one particular-working day discover from the federal authorities declaring Juneteenth a getaway, the city staff were not capable to observe the holiday break this 12 months.

In unrelated small business, Town Administrator Jonathan Tullos up to date the council on the status of the proposed beekeeping ordinance. At the next conference in July the proposed ordinance will be discussed with programs to have the ordinance formally released at the initially conference in August.