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While most objections to liquor licenses are tied up with DC residents' discomfort with any commercial establishments existing in their neighborhoods, I actually have sympathy for them if the issue of school proximity was an honest objection and not just a "throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks" attempt to stop any and all commercial activity in line with normal neighborhood patterns. Because while I don't have any moral objections to consumption of alcohol within line-of-sight of the underaged, plenty of people do, and their values were apparently strong enough to get them written into the DC alcohol licensing regulation laws.

Just because you're not Puritanical about alcohol doesn't mean that no one else is, and if they have enough pull to decree that no alcohol should be served in proximity to schools, that's ok with me, honestly. I have a feeling that some people just looked through the list of laws and figured that this was a good excuse to keep out a restaurateur who was going to "make money off the community without giving back!" kind of stuff we normally see in DC.

by Tyro on Jun 21, 2012 6:55 pm • link • report

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