{"id":19343,"date":"2015-11-13T21:35:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T05:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/bethel-city-council-drops-protests-against-2-liquor-licenses\/"},"modified":"2015-11-13T21:35:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T05:35:45","slug":"bethel-city-council-drops-protests-against-2-liquor-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/bethel-city-council-drops-protests-against-2-liquor-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethel City Council drops protests against 2 liquor licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BETHEL \u2014<\/strong> Bethel officials are withdrawing their protests to two liquor license applications, reversing a decision last week to keep the protests in place.<\/p>\n<p>The Bethel City Council voted 4-3 to allow AC Quickstop and Bethel Native Corp. to proceed with their applications, KYUK-AM reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The council\u2019s decision comes after a majority of Bethel voters chose to support alcohol sales in the last advisory vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people of Bethel have officially spoken,\u201d said Councilwoman Alisha Welch, \u201cand we need to respect their views and give the applicants a fair chance by withdrawing the protests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bethel city code prohibits a liquor store within 300 feet of school grounds. BNC\u2019s application calls for opening a liquor store in the Kipusvik building, located across the street from the Bethel Youth Facility. But whether the facility qualifies as a school has yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>Councilman Zach Fansler said he believes the proposed location violates Bethel law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt really is an injustice for us as a council to not uphold our own code. We can do interpretation; we can uphold the code; we can change the code; and we\u2019re simply not doing that in this case,\u201d said Fansler.<\/p>\n<p>Councilman Chuck Herman said he did not support AC Quickstop\u2019s application because of the store\u2019s proximity to schools in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a location that is going to see a very, very, very large amount of traffic from high school students, and it\u2019s going to be an area where a lot of students have to walk by,\u201d said Herman.<\/p>\n<p>Both applications will be reviewed by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board on Nov. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BETHEL \u2014 Bethel officials are withdrawing their protests to two liquor license applications, reversing a decision last week to keep the protests in place. The Bethel City Council voted 4-3 to allow AC Quickstop and Bethel Native Corp. to proceed with their applications, KYUK-AM reported Thursday. The council\u2019s decision comes after a majority of Bethel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19343"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}