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Plan commission approves alcohol and outdoor-service CUPs for downtown tasting room after debate over outdoor smoking enforcement
Summary
Waunakee commissioners approved two conditional use permits for a downtown tasting room at 114 East Main Street — one for alcohol sales and one for outdoor eating/drinking (including cigar/pipe tobacco use). Commissioners debated adding a condition that would allow re-evaluation if outdoor smoke "volume" becomes an issue; the condition remained after debate about enforceability.
The Waunakee Plan Commission approved two conditional use permits (CUPs) for a tasting room at 114 East Main Street: one to permit alcohol sales in the C1D commercial downtown district and a second to permit outdoor eating and drinking that would include regulated on-site cigar and pipe tobacco smoking.
Lauren, village planning staff, told the commission that the proposed business is "a full-service bar and retail sale of cigars and pipe tobacco," and that on-site smoking is permitted for this use by a state law exemption. She said the…
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