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Salina adopts downtown common-consumption area and overhauls alcohol code; ordinance approved 4–1
Summary
The City Commission reorganized chapter 5 of the municipal code and approved a new common-consumption area for downtown Salina — allowing licensed businesses and approved temporary permit holders to serve beverages in marked cups within a mapped boundary — after public debate and a 4–1 vote.
The Salina City Commission on June 9 reorganized the city’s alcoholic-beverage code and created a designated downtown common-consumption area, enabling licensed establishments and authorized temporary vendors to sell and permit consumption of alcohol in marked cups within a defined downtown boundary.
City attorneys and planners told commissioners the reorganization consolidates scattered rules into a single chapter and adds a new Section 5‑33 to establish the common-consumption area; the commission approved the ordinance by a 4–1 vote. The new map places boundaries roughly from Elm Street on the north to South Street on the south and from Fifth to Seventh Streets east–west, also including the area adjacent to the garage and the river-side plaza east of Fourth…
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