Council approves water-conservation ordinance, parks rules, several alcohol permits and vendor awards

Alpine City Council voted unanimously at its Feb. 4 meeting on a series of ordinances, resolutions and administrative awards, including a new water conservation and drought contingency ordinance and updated parks rules that create a permitting process for festivals, events and alcohol.

The council gave second-and-final reading approval to ordinance 2025-01-01, which replaces the city code’s existing water conservation plan and drought contingency provisions and establishes drought-stage criteria, restrictions on certain water uses, procedures for variances and penalties up to $500 per violation. The ordinance was approved after it was carried on its first reading Jan. 7. The council also approved ordinance 2025-01-02 to update Chapter 74 (parks and recreation) to add rules, a permitting process for events and alcohol and penalties up to $500 per occurrence.

The council approved several special-use permit applications for retail sale of wine and malt beverages tied to changes in ownership at Alpine businesses: Velocity (1500 W. U.S. 90), Velocity (610…