Good Old Days?
Remember the “Good Old Days?”
Back when a City Council allowed legal private business to operate within their city limits without interference?
Hard to remember back then, isn’t it?
A proposal to expand a liquor license to allow an outdoor beer garden at an Eau Claire tavern went up in smoke Tuesday.
The Eau Claire City Council voted to postpone the request by the Elbow Room, 679 Wisconsin St., because of concerns that allowing alcohol in an outdoor recreation area outside the bar would increase noise complaints there.
Tavern operators made the request in part to allow customers a designated smoking area. Smoking is not allowed in Eau Claire taverns or other indoor public places.
In a letter to the council, tavern manager David Husby stated he had spoken with bar neighbors and said they were OK with the proposal. But Councilman Andrew Werthmann said he spoke with neighbors who objected to the plan and hadn’t been contacted by Husby.
One of those neighbors, Dan Robinson, who operates the Inn Towne Hotel, 678 Wisconsin St., said he fears already numerous noise issues will increase if alcohol is allowed outside the bar.
“All around the Elbow Room there are families … this would be a step backward,” he said.
The council directed Husby to talk with more neighbors before it reconsiders the measure.
The Eau Claire City Council wants previously legal doors to close forever. They won’t be satisfied until they accomplish it. It is a power trip plain and simple.
Ah, remember the good old days.
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3 Responses to “Good Old Days?”
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Al Arnold Says:
If I moved next door to a bar I would expect noise.
I live a 1/2 block off my Main Stret and 1/2 block from the Police/Fire Department. When I bought the house I expected some noise. I got it. I don’t complain about it because I knew it was coming.
I have supported my business neighbors everytime they have wanted to expand or needed a variance. I don’t just talk the talk, I walk the walk.
If someone doesn’t want to support their business neighbors they shouldn’t move next to a business.
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LZ Says:
Didn’t the neighbors peacefully co-exist next to the bar where the business was conducted inside the building? Now the bar is proposing to change to outdoor service and the drinking/language/behaviors that might be objectionable would now impact the neighbors. I don’t think we had that many beer gardens in the good ol’ days and I don’t recall that the same kind of language I hear today, after people have had a few, is how people talked back in the good ol days, either.
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July 30th, 2009 at 8:54 am
Would you want an outdoor beer garden operating next door to you? I will never again stay overnight at the Inn on the Park at the state capitol square. After spending 4 sleepless nights listening to the revelers going on until the wee hours, I now book rooms outside the area, even when the conferences I’m attending are held at the Inn or Monona Terrace. I surely wouldn’t want to have to live next to that on a regular basis and then have to get up and go to work.