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With changes to alcohol regulations, whats next for Gainesville?
Debate over alcohol-to-food sales ratio continues
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City Council has approved several changes to Gainesville’s alcohol ordinance since the beginning of 2014. The amendments to Gainesville’s alcohol ordinance are meant to promote new business, streamline permitting, eliminate outdated restrictions and better align with state regulations. - photo by Erin O. Smith
For a community long accustomed to unusual restrictions on the sale and consumption of alcohol, it’s been a remarkable change of pace for Gainesville to amend its ordinances over the last year or so to accommodate businesses serving up beer, liquor and wine. But the thirst of some to scrap or modify one of the city’s most contentious regulations on alcohol has not yet been quenched. The city requires that restaurants selling alcohol make half their revenue from food sales.