NORTH REDINGTON BEACH \u2014 The Town Commission voted unanimously April 9 to allow bars and restaurants in strip malls to serve alcohol in outdoor seating areas that cannot be fully enclosed, loosening a restriction that had limited on-premises consumption to walled-off spaces.<\/p>\n
The modified ordinance, which passed 5-0 on first reading, applies to establishments where “enclosure on all sides is not possible due to the establishment’s location.” The business must be a permanent structure connected to the outdoor seating area and in compliance with all other provisions of Chapter 6 of the town code, which governs alcoholic beverages.<\/p>\n
Under the previous ordinance, establishments could not serve beer, wine or liquor in areas that were not enclosed on all sides \u2014 a standard that effectively barred outdoor service at strip-mall restaurants and bars.<\/p>\n
The revised ordinance requires that outdoor seating be “separated and buffered from the parking area by a fence, wall, or other structure approved by the building official.”<\/p>\n
“This way, there is a separation between the outdoor area where alcoholic beverages are served and consumed and the parking area,” Town Clerk Mari Campbell said.<\/p>\n
E-bike sidewalk ban passes on final reading<\/p>\n
In other business, an ordinance prohibiting the operation of electric bicycles on town sidewalks passed unanimously on its second and final reading.<\/p>\n
Retired Commissioner Gary Curtis asked whether a recently passed state law on e-bikes would affect the town’s ordinance. Curtis noted that the state law permits electric bicycles but limits them to 10 mph and requires a horn, bell or other audible warning device.<\/p>\n
Town Attorney Jay Daigneault said the state law would likely have no bearing on the local ban.<\/p>\n
“State law will probably not change what we are doing here,” Daigneault said.<\/p>\n
Mayor Jay Super said the commission acted out of safety concerns.<\/p>\n
“We addressed this over concerns about the way electric bicycles were being driven in the town,” Super said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH REDINGTON BEACH \u2014 The Town Commission voted unanimously April 9 to allow bars and restaurants in strip…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[87669,6104,104018,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-232794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-beach_beacon","tag-beaches","tag-redington_beach","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}