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Licenses committee approves ordinance to regulate pop‑up event spaces, citing neighborhood disruptions
Summary
The Milwaukee licenses committee passed an ordinance requiring commercial event spaces to register as public entertainment premises, notify neighbors and return after a year for review — a change sponsors say closes a loophole surfaced by Act 73. The committee moved the ordinance forward without objection.
Alderman Lamont Westmoreland introduced an ordinance (file #250666) on Nov. 11 that would expand the city’s public entertainment premises (PEP) rules to cover commercial event spaces converted from retail or other nonentertainment uses. Westmoreland said he drafted the change after constituents told him a former appliance store had been repurposed as an unregulated event space used for weddings, parties and similar gatherings that disrupted nearby residents. “Neighbors…
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