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Framingham commissioners press for cleaner license applications, discuss outdoor seating and enforcement; police report 14 alcohol violations

2313994 · February 10, 2025
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Commissioners urged stricter application completeness checks and discussed a citywide move to fillable PDF forms; Lieutenant McCarthy reported 14 recent alcohol compliance violations and staff said several licensed openings are expected this spring.

During the Feb. 10 meeting the board devoted time to several policy and enforcement topics: commissioners asked staff to tighten application intake, discussed outdoor seating rules after the pandemic-era emergency ended, and heard an enforcement update that included 14 alcohol-related compliance violations in the last cycle.

Commissioner Shannon McCullough and others pushed for a stronger front-end check of license applications so incomplete or illegible forms do not come to the board.…

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