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Council reconsiders liquor-store permit in Temple Heights after renewed petitions and a crime-data review
Summary
City staff presented a refiled application to open a liquor store at Avenue M and 43rd in the Temple Heights neighborhood. Staff's updated three-year, 300-foot-radius crime analysis showed 21 offenses; councilors pressed staff on whether the incidents can be causally linked to the store. No final vote was recorded before the meeting adjourned to executive session.
City Council members heard a refiled application to authorize a liquor store in the Temple Heights neighborhood, at a commercial suite on Avenue M near 43rd, during a meeting that revisited a denial issued roughly a year earlier. The applicant previously sought and was denied a conditional-use permit and has returned after the required waiting period.
Staff described the proposed liquor store as a physically separated smaller suite adjacent to an existing convenience/smoke-shop operation and said any Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) approval would follow a council decision. Staff identified Scott Elementary as more than 1,000 feet to the south and a church about 950 feet to the west, and therefore…
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