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Bill to lower hotel-room threshold for liquor licenses draws support from developers
Summary
Representative Schutte introduced House Bill 4700 to lower the hotel-room threshold that determines liquor-license eligibility in certain downtown development areas; industry witnesses, including Bedrock CEO Jared Fleischer, supported the change as regulatory modernization.
Representative Schutte told the House Regulatory Reform Committee that House Bill 4700 updates language in the state liquor-control code to lower the number-of-rooms threshold that currently prevents many small boutique hotels in Grand Rapids and Detroit from qualifying for on-site liquor licenses.
Schutte said the existing numeric threshold dates to an older…
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