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Committee advances targeted liquor moratorium for parts of the 13th Ward
Summary
Alderman Boyd told the St. Louis City Public Safety Committee that Board Bill 52 narrows the ward's blanket liquor moratorium to specific commercial corridors (Hall Street, Broadway, Natural Bridge, Martin Luther King and 'Guptown') to allow sit-down restaurants; the committee advanced the bill with a due-pass recommendation.
Alderman Boyd asked the St. Louis City Public Safety Committee to favorably consider Board Bill 52, an update to a prior liquor moratorium that she said would replace a blanket ban with a targeted moratorium covering commercial corridors in her ward.
"We were trying to bring business into our ward," Alderman Boyd said, explaining that excise staff helped redraw boundaries so the change would protect residential areas while allowing sit-down restaurants to apply for liquor licenses. Boyd named Hall Street, Broadway, Natural Bridge, Martin Luther King and "Guptown" as examples of the corridors to be excluded from the residential moratorium.
Alderman Clark Hubbard said he supported the measure and asked to be added as a co-sponsor; other committee members asked clarifying questions but raised no objections. After discussion the committee moved and seconded a motion to pass the bill out of committee with a "due pass" recommendation; the transcript records committee approval to advance the bill but does not record a roll-call tally in the meeting record.
The committee action sends the measure forward with a recommendation that the full Board of Aldermen consider adoption. The committee did not take a final Board-level vote on the ordinance at the meeting.
