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Council debates liquor-license rules after package store seeks move to Forest Parkway
Summary
Council members questioned how a package store tenant from a fire-damaged Old Dixie location secured zoning verification to relocate to Forest Parkway and discussed state rules requiring a 100-yard minimum distance from churches for distilled-spirits package sales; staff said the use is permitted by right if zoning allows.
Council members pressed city staff on Nov. 17 about how a packaged-spirits business that lost its Old Dixie location in a fire sought and received zoning verification to move to a parcel on Forest Parkway.
Councilman Gutierrez and others said they were surprised the tenant chose a Forest Parkway site that sits near a church, and asked whether state law or city…
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