Aurora moves to require cabaret-style licenses, tighter oversight for event centers

Aurora — The City Council advanced an ordinance Monday to create a new open-floor cabaret license and to require private event centers that permit alcohol and dancing to obtain cabaret permits and follow stricter safety and alcohol-service rules.

The measure, sponsored by Council member Jurinsky, would add a new cabaret classification for standing-room venues holding more than 250 patrons and would require fire-department-approved crowd-control plans, limits on glass, new rules for bottle service, a 14-day video-surveillance retention requirement and other controls to curb noise, violence and overconsumption.

Trevor Vaughn, manager of licensing, told the council the ordinance has “two separate goals.” He said, “The first is creation of an open floor cabaret license for places that have standing room only. So this allows locations that…