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Walnut Creek adopts pilot entertainment-zone ordinance to let downtown patrons carry drinks at specified events
Summary
Council approved a downtown entertainment-zone ordinance under state law to allow alcohol consumption in defined public-right-of-way event footprints; the ordinance requires a nonprofit sponsor, management plan, event permits, ABC compliance and includes a council-set sunset/termination date.
Walnut Creek's City Council voted unanimously on April 21 to add an "entertainment zones" chapter to the municipal code, authorizing event-based public-right-of-way areas downtown where participating businesses may serve alcohol consistent with their ABC licenses and visitors may carry beverages inside a managed footprint.
Economic Development Manager Mike Nieman told council the zone is intended as an economic-activation tool under state Senate Bill 969: "An entertainment zone applies to the public right of way, and it allows consumption of alcohol on all kinds of publicly owned spaces," he said, explaining the approach is event-based, requires a…
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