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Council leans to expand BAR 2022 citywide; microbreweries to return next month
Summary
The council reviewed maps and options for BAR 2022 (a downtown-focused alcohol-use standard), directed staff to prepare a citywide text amendment using the current 2,000-square-foot cap and separation rules, and asked staff to bring the microbrewery item back next month so the two items can be considered together.
Chief Planner Shante Goodby presented maps and analysis at the Greenville Regional City Council workshop showing how changing the BAR 2022 standards would affect eligible properties downtown and citywide. Goodby reviewed scenarios with maximum sizes from 2,000 to 5,000 square feet and explained how separation distances from single-family districts were applied in the citywide maps.
“Series 1 is for the current eligible area right now, and then series 2 is gonna be maps of the citywide area,” Goodby said while walking council through incremental map layers that showed which properties would qualify at different size caps.
Council members debated two primary questions: whether to increase the downtown maximum size for BAR 2022 and whether to allow BAR 2022…
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