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Mooresville staff seek permanent expansion of downtown social district and temporary festival boundary for Sept. 13 event
Summary
Experience & Engagement director proposed expanding the Downtown Mooresville social district to include Mill 1 businesses and asked the board to approve a temporary extension into Liberty Park for the Bands, Brews & Barbecue festival (Sept. 13, 4–9 p.m.), with signage and police enforcement.
Christine Patterson, director of the Town of Mooresville Experience & Engagement Department, presented a second‑reading ordinance to expand the town’s Downtown social district and requested a temporary social‑district extension for the Bands, Brews & Barbecue festival on Sept. 13 from 4 to 9 p.m.
Patterson said the enabling state law (Session Law 2021‑150, with clarifications enacted in 2022) allows municipalities to create social districts that permit possession and consumption of alcohol in designated public areas under local controls, and she reviewed local rules the town must follow: designated cups no larger than 16 ounces, marked with district…
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