Part of the core of Pike/Pine’s nightlife scene, Neumos and Moe Bar have put out a call to customers asking for their support of a Seattle City Council resolution to petition the state liquor board to allow local government to ask for “extended service hours.”
WANT THE BARS TO BE OPEN LATER, POSSIBLY EVEN 24 HOURS?
Please write, email, or phone the Liquor Board and express your support for City of Seattle Council Resolution Number 31308The Washington State Liquor Control Board has entered into the initial stage of rule making to revise WAC-314-11-070 During What Hours Can I Sell and Serve Liquor? The City of Seattle filed a petition with the board requesting a change to WAC-31411-070 to allow local governments to petition the board to establish extended service hours within their local jurisdictions.
The rule currently prohibits the sale or service of liquor between 2am and 6am.
Please forward your initial comments to the Liquor Control Board by mail, email, or fax by December 1st, 2011″
By Mail
Rules Coordinator
Liquor Control Board
PO Box 43080
Olympia WA 98504By Email
[email protected]
360-664-9689Neumos and Moe Bar strongly recommend the WSLCB make extended hours of service possible. As busy and predominantly late-night Seattle businesses on Capitol Hill, we believe it would help many safety concerns night life is faced with. It would help eliminate the 2am push out, which is taxing on SPD, as well as cab service, and street safety. In addition, It would have a positive impact on the city of Seattle from a tourism and general economic stand point.
Thank you for you consideration!
Neumos
To be fair, CHS has also received a request from another Pike/Pine business owner who does not support extended hours to remind CHS readers about the issue. That business owner declined to be identified so, hey, Neumos gets the headline.
Extended service hours have been identified as part of Mayor Mike McGinn’s Seattle Nightlife Initiative as an opportunity to create a safer environment by eliminating the “last call” spill-out into the streets after 2a and as an opportunity to create a more active, lucrative nightlife economy. The City Council has already shown its support for extended hours in Seattle with a vote this summer to approve a resolution asking the state to review its rules regarding liquor service. In October, the state said it would study the ability for local jurisdictions to set extended service hours.
The new resolution lays out Seattle’s potential role as lead city in the statewide changes:
Section 1. The City of Seattle requests that the Washington State Liquor Control Board modify existing WAC 314- 11-070, which strictly prohibits service of any alcohol between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m., and establish new rules allowing local authorities to petition to establish extended hours service areas within their jurisdictions.
Section 2. The City of Seattle will work collaboratively with the Washington State Liquor Control Board, other local jurisdictions, and other police and law enforcement authorities to: 1) research the experience of other jurisdictions that have authorized extended service hours, 2) review the proposed changes to WAC 314-11-170, and 3) identify policing and regulatory strategies that would lead to safe and successful implementation of extended hour service areas.
Oh, yeah, and I’m sure the position taken by Neumo’s and Moe Bar have NOTHING to do with increasing their bottom line.
I knew exactly what kind of neighborhood I was moving into when I took my apartment 8 years ago. I love living on Capitol Hill, in the midst of the vivaciousness that is Broadway and Pike. It’s alive, vibrant, and (mostly) very satisfying.
I cannot, however, bear the thought of bars/clubs being open all night. I welcome 2:00 a.m. with a sigh of relief, as there will finally be a few hours of quiet and calm on the hill, a time for recovery, rejuvenation for the next day.
If a mixed-use neighborhood is desired, w/ppl who can live, work, and play in the same neighborhood, THIS WILL NOT WORK. Please don’t ruin our neighborhood with this idea.
Can we write letters discouraging bars from staying open late?
I am not for it. I grew up in a place where last call was 3:30AM and that seemed too late. People drank so heavily, for so many hours, that the bars had to start giving away free Cab vouchers due to all of the drunk driving accidents. I like how it is. I like knowing that at 2AM everyone goes home and things get quiet again.
I think hours should be extended, Think about it, if there is no alcohol curfew people will go to bars and drink at random times. Its scary driving back my friends after bars close (I don’t drink) and see all of the drunk drivers driving at the same time. If there is no curfew there will be less drunk drivers driving at the same time. Also if you live in the city when making that choice you should have thought about the noise. Its a city, that’s where everything happens. If you don’t like the noise please move away from it or go to areas where there is no bars. WA is so behind, america should be free yet we have so many laws and our lives are being regulated by the government and people with outdated ideas.
allowing service or sales between 2 and 6 seems harmless, but in practice we’re going down a dangerous path.
As it stands, only a few select areas will get this distinction, which will mean the whole region will descend on these places come 2. Which means they will drive to get here. This explains why the WSPatrol is against it.
The community should be very concerned about this initiative, in light of McGinn’s attempt to revoke the noise ordinance by radically re-defining “plainly audible” to mean noise levels 32 times louder than what current case law holds. Per McGinn’s definition of “plainly audible”, clubs can, without consequence, subject you to continuous thumping on par with the loudest sub-woofers you hear driving by. If clubs can stay open later, they can subject you to that much noise all that much longer.