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F’ville City Council to punish alcohol ordinance violators |
2009-11-03 |
By Mary Moore |
Fayetteville City Council will address four alcohol ordinance violations at Thursday’s meeting.
Robert Ochs of Aldi Foods, Ollegario Gallegos-Polina and Marcos Allan Martinez of El Ranchero Restaurant, Leandro Javier Vidal of La Parilla Mexican Restaurant and Mokarran Khan of the Phillips 66 Food Mart could face a $500 fine and permit revocation.
Fayetteville police became aware of the violations after conducting an alcohol permit inspection at all city businesses during the week of Aug. 7, according to Capt. Steve Crawshaw with the Fayetteville Police Department.
“During the operation, five people were cited for serving alcohol
to persons without a permit,” said Fayetteville Police Chief Steve Heaton in an Oct. 12 memorandum to City Manager Joe Morton
“On Sept. 29, 2009 two of the persons pled guilty. On Oct. 6, 2009 the remaining person pled guilty. Two businesses/managers were cited for allowing employees to sell alcohol without permits, Aldi Foods and El Ranchero Restaurant.”
If city council votes to revoke their permits, the violators would not be able to obtain another permit for a minimum of 24 months.
In other business, Council will consider endorsing an angled parking request to DOT for downtown parking.
Fayetteville Main Street and city engineers are requesting to change the parallel parking into angled parking on the old Courthouse side of Stonewall Avenue.
“The number of parking spaces on that block will increase from 9 to 18. Staff feels that this change will help to diminish the perception that the City lacks adequate parking in the downtown square, and in turn, will create more marketable opportunities for our downtown properties,” explained city engineer Don Easterbrook and Main Street’s Brian Wismer in an Oct. 23 memorandum sent to Fayetteville Council.
“This is also in keeping with the goals of the Main Street program to increase and nurture economic activity, and to better the public perception of Downtown Fayetteville as a destination and gathering place.”
Council will also consider the approval of the Tiger Trail Soccer Field Lighting Proposal and the FY 2009 final budget amendments.
Additionally, the results from Tuesday’s election will be announced via a resolution.
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