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City staff backs change to Ghent PCOs to allow restaurants with alcohol by right under narrow conditions

5489409 · July 25, 2025
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Summary

Staff recommended a text amendment to allow restaurants that serve alcohol, close by 11 p.m. and provide no entertainment to operate by right in the 20‑First Street and Colley Avenue PCOs after presentation by a Ghent Business Association request.

City planning staff presented a request — initiated by the Ghent Business Association and carried by the planning commission as the body that can amend the zoning ordinance — to allow restaurants with alcoholic beverage service to operate by right in the 20 First Street and Colley Avenue Planned Commercial Overlay (PCO) districts, provided they…

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