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Thursday, May 31, 2007

Nightlife License Moves Forward

posted by on May 31 at 12:25 PM

Council member Sally Clark is expected to introduce a revised nightlife licensing proposal later today, to the likely disappointment of bar and club advocates, who had hoped the council would scuttle the mayor’s proposal in favor of non-license-based legislation that would increase enforcement of nuisance laws like the noise ordinance without giving the city the ability to shut down clubs at will. The silver lining, however, is that city officials will only be able to pull the new license in the case of violent incidents, which are relatively rare—alleviating fears that clubs would be held responsible for noise and litter violations that take place off their property. Clark’s neighborhoods and economic development committee will hold a final public hearing on the proposal on Monday, June 4 at 5:30 pm in City Council chambers.

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Goddamnit! City Council are a bunch of pussies!

Posted by rubyred | May 31, 2007 12:59 PM
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SO then Nickels has SPD step up patrols in the areas he wants to snuff out nightlife in, then makes sure the cops 'push' vagrants and other undesireables towards these neighborhoods, wait for the shit to drop, swoop in and BAM, lost license.

Whichever Nickels plant put that provision in is a genius... or the tool of a genius.

The Mayor will gladly sign this, because he'll get what he wants anyway.

Posted by Gomez | May 31, 2007 1:47 PM
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the ironic thing is the condo owners are pushing for this but it doesn't deal at all with noise on the street, public urination, lowd cars, drunken idiots - all the things they really want addressed. So nice work council - you've ignored the residents, fucked the music community, and empowered a police force you are investigating for corruption. Idiots.

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