Boulder City Council considers sweeping changes to liquor rules

By Ryan Morgan

"Boulder's elected leaders this week will consider a raft of potential new regulations aimed at trying to prevent alcohol abuse."

"In a memo delivered to the City Council, planning officials have outlined a range of options for dealing with alcohol abuse. The strategy that staff say would be most likely to be effective would attempt to concentrate ‘high-risk’ alcohol outlets -- that is, restaurants and bars that rely heavily on booze sales -- into discrete areas away from ‘neighborhoods, CU and mixed-use,’ according to the memo… “

"If elected leaders opted for the concentration idea, the city would use zoning rules -- specifically, ‘conditional use standards’ -- to better control the areas in which ‘high-risk’ bars are allowed to open.”

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