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Chattanooga council asks legal staff to draft tighter rules for liquor-store permits
Summary
Councilmembers instructed legal and planning staff to draft amendments to liquor-store rules to add clearer, objective review criteria and stronger spacing/per-capita limits; feedback is due to staff by March 31 and a draft ordinance is expected for future consideration in mid-April.
Chattanooga City Council on March 17 asked city legal and planning staff to prepare ordinance amendments that would tighten the city’s review standards for liquor-store special exceptions, aiming to reduce subjectivity and lower the risk of successful legal challenges.
The request followed a presentation from Phil, the city attorney, who provided a checklist of possible review criteria—such as recent drug or theft offenses and code violations in a surrounding radius—that the council could require in…
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