violating a never-before-enforced city code<\/a> prohibiting anyone licensed to operate as a restaurant from charging a cover fee for live music. At the time, Dallas city council member Chad West said the city was using a sledgehammer for what really called for a scalpel.<\/p>\nIn October, he created a 14-member task force that was charged with finding solutions.<\/p>\n
The task force unveiled its proposal to the public on Wednesday night at a meeting where they got a lot of feedback from stakeholders in the industry.<\/p>\n
The task force suggests that the city implement a new tiered permitting system. They would be issued based on capacity, hours of operation and venue category.<\/p>\n
A dance club operating until the early hours of the morning would face different scrutiny than live piano music in a restaurant.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re a good operator, you can serve food and charge for musicians. If you\u2019re a bad operator, your permit can be denied,\u201d West said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a way to hold people more accountable but also opens the door for more people to participate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Several venue owners were hoping for more clarity on whether it would add or take away a layer of regulation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a gray area in Deep Ellum on whether you\u2019re a restaurant, music venue, club,\u201d said Jeff Biehler, owner of Dusty\u2019s on Elm Street. \u201cObviously, there are a lot of questions about what we can and can\u2019t do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think this meeting necessarily answered those questions, but it did give us guidance on where they\u2019re moving to try to answer those questions.\u201d<\/p>\n
The task force is operating in a tight time frame.<\/p>\n
They will tweak their proposal based on the feedback they received from stakeholders and will present their findings to a Dallas City Council committee in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A special city task force unveiled a proposed overhaul to Dallas\u2019s permitting process for bars, clubs, and restaurants…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[899,69046,102,105,104,103,20435,69047,69045,69044],"class_list":["post-170851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-chad-west","tag-city-code","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-city-council","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-music-venue","tag-permitting-process","tag-restaurants-in-bishop-arts","tag-task-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}