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Measure allows sale of alcohol on Christmas
Published December 11, 2009
LOGANVILLE — Liquor should be on tap in restaurants and available in stores Christmas Day in Loganville thanks to a rushed amendment to the alcoholic beverage ordinance officials were expected to approve at Thursday’s city council meeting.
“When we re-wrote the ordinance after approving liquor-by-the-drink, we somehow added it couldn’t be sold on Christmas Day,” said City Manager Bill Jones. “This just reverses that.”
In addition, the amendment changes the time alcoholic beverages can begin being sold in the city from 10 a.m. to 8 a.m.
“This was brought to our attention by the QuikTrip,” Jones said. “They used to be able to sell from 8 a.m. and with the change it meant people passing through Loganville on the way to a game in Athens couldn’t buy from the local gas stations if they passed through before 10 a.m.”
Officials were expected to have the first and second reading in one session in order to implement it in time for this Christmas.
However, stores still can’t sell alcohol anywhere in Georgia on a Sunday and restaurants in Loganville can’t serve alcohol on a Sunday, even if Christmas Day were to fall on a Sunday. Loganville is one of only three cities in Gwinnett County that don’t allow the sale of alcohol in restaurants on a Sunday, the others being Dacula and Snellville.
That could be reduced to just two cities next week if Snellville Mayor Jerry Oberholtzer has anything to do with it.
Snellville has already had the first reading on allowing liquor to be sold in restaurants on Sundays, with the second reading and a vote scheduled for Monday. Should it be approved, Oberholtzer said he has everything in place to put it into effect immediately. The first reading sailed through with only one dissenting vote Councilwoman Kelly Kautz.
Should the issue be approved Monday, residents in Snellville won’t have to leave the city limits to find a restaurant where they can have a glass of wine with their Sunday meal as early as Dec. 20. Oberholtzer said in these difficult economic times it is important to give city businesses all the tools necessary to be competitive.
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