Nightlife Survey: Tell Mayor McGinn What Matters to You
Got ideas about going out in Seattle? Here’s an easy way to give the powers that be a little piece of your mind.
Posted by: Jessica Voelker on Jul 16, 2010 at 10:44AM
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As you may have heard, on July 14 Mayor McGinn outlined his proposal to improve Seattle nightlife. The proposal dealt with eight “principles.”
They are these:
1. Code compliance enforcement
2. Flexible liquor service hours
3. Noise ordinance enforcement
4. Security training requirements
5. Precinct community outreach
6. Professional development
7. Late-night transportation alternatives
8. Targeting public nuisances
Most interesting to me is 2. flexible liquor service hours, something I wrote about a few months back.
Whatever is most important to you, you should tell the mayor about it by taking the Seattle Nightlife Initiative Survey.
Tags: Booze News, Booze Laws, Nightlife Initiative
These “problems” stem from one thing: intoxication, blood alcohol level. Let’s get real. If the WAC re: alcohol serving was enforced none of this would be an issue, absolutely NONE of it. Bars could be open or closed any time with no impact on their communities. Closing time would be a non-issue. Drunk driving would rarely exist. People would be able to leave an establishment without yelling, crying, relieving themselves in public or threatening to hit someone. Read the WAC for alcohol servers if you don’t believe me.
Everyone involved in this movement knows it. They also know that the Nightlife Industry is financially dependent on breaking the law, plain and simple. Without over-serving alcohol they cease to exist. Tips are the living wage for these places. The whole structure of drink prices and door charges depends on a fair number of patrons being served more than the law allows.
So club owners contribute to campaign funds and “new solutions” are pushed on unsuspecting voters. The police deal with the fallout. On top of the rest of their duties. Out of their paper thin budget.
Why not start with the facts here? Who gets rude, noisy or dangerous? Why? How? When? Where? How often?
I think the reason may be that Mayor AND the Liquor Control Board don’t want us to look at the facts. Because they represent a dirty little secret. A law that’s not enforced and an industry built on deception.