Mayor Nancy Vaughan is holding a town hall meeting on a new proposed nightclub ordinance on Monday, July 26 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Barber Park Event Center.
What was called the nightclub ordinance is now being called “The Greensboro Safety Plan,” but whatever the name, it is a proposal to restrict private, for-profit businesses that sell alcohol for on-premises consumption and have violent incidents inside or in the area under the control of that business.
According to the press release, at the town hall, “City staff will present a working proposal for the next phase of the Safety Plan.”
The public is invited, although the press release states, “Unvaccinated attendees are required to wear a mask.”
The Greensboro City Council began the year with a discussion of a nightclub ordinance on Jan. 5, which was strange since at the time, because of COVID-19 restrictions, bars could only serve customers outdoors and nightclubs were restricted to 25 people indoors, which resulted in most being closed.
In December 2014, in a response to a shooting outside a nightclub, the City Council passed a nightclub ordinance requiring bars and nightclubs to have enhanced security. However, after the complaints about the ordinance came flooding in, the City Council voted to impose a moratorium on enforcing the ordinance.
In April of this year, after four people were stabbed outside a downtown bar and restaurant, Vaughan in a Facebook post announced she was moving forward with an effort to develop and pass an ordinance “to hold bad actors accountable for violent acts on, or directly related, to their premises.”
The current draft of the plan calls for the city to appoint a four-member Safety Review Board made up of one member of the Greensboro Police Department Command Staff, a member of the Greensboro Fire Department Fire Marshal’s Office, a member of the Department of Neighborhood Development and a member of the Department of Building and Inspection.
After a violent act at a privately owned, for-profit business that serves alcohol for on-premises consumption, or allows on-premises consumption, the Safety Review Board would meet and make a recommendation for action that might include hiring more security guards, installing metal detectors or maintaining a list of everyone who enters the premises.
Failure to comply with the recommendation of the Safety Review Board could result in the business being declared a public nuisance under the existing laws.
That’ll fixit, fer sure. Just a bit more power to Big Brother (Big Sister?); and less for the business, who risks their own cash & energy to run a business for people want it. Didn’t Ben Franklin and friends “go sip” at their favorite tavern?
So when a couple of drunk guys get in a fight at my favorite Chili’s and one of them has to go tot he hospital, I’ll have to pass through armed security the next time I want to eat there as well as provide my name and ID. Awesome. Nothing like dining under armed guard to draw in the crowds. Another business killing ordinance coming soon to a town near you.
Why would anyone want to go to a restaurant, nightclub, or bar these days when there is soo much crime in their areas of business. Go to an ABC store and buy a bottle and go home and pour your own drink with as much boozes as you want in your drink. It is a much better drink anyway. And learn to cook and enjoy a much better meal at home than any chef can create and serve that cost too much with a waiter standing at your table begging for a big tip. How can anyone enjoy themselves with a night out under these circumstances. AND this will solve the situation that these people trying to solve the situation has absolutely no idea how to solve the problems that we are all dealing with these days. PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And learn to medicine and doctor yourself when sickly!
Yea, home cooks don’t hold a candle to trained and career chefs. But you’re right about bar tending, at home you don’t have a legal obligation to pour sensible amounts of alcohol. Drink your bottle at home, alone, with your easy Mac cuisine. *Chefs kiss.*
Right! But you forgot to factor in that modern people can do even less for themselves than you might imagine – like cook.
I can cook, and I am wearing it……
How about a no saggy pants & no gang colors ordinance. You need to get rid of the thugs not the legitimate customers.
SO TRUE, very well said.
Alright, it’s now illegal to where red, white, blue, black, yellow, green, pink, brown, purple, and orange. Any combination of those colors is also illegal. Any shade of variation of those colors is also illegal.
Additionally, it will be illegal to wear anything other than jeggings and yoga pants.
Good idea! Stop sexualizing me.
It’s much easier to get rid of legitimate customers.
Why only private business? A man was killed at a city sanctioned and run event (folk festival). They were serving alcohol. It was ruled a homicide by those that were there to protect and serve. ““to hold bad actors accountable for violent acts on, or directly related, to their premises.” …
Except public owned nusiances that cater to the donor class.