Metropolis council approves public consuming on Santa Monica’s Third Road Promenade – NBC Los Angeles
The town of Santa Monica plans to designate the Third avenue Promenade as an open container space.
The objective is to draw extra guests, however some enterprise homeowners are involved it’ll do the alternative.
The town hopes this new initiative will revitalize the Third Road Promenade and make it a vacation spot for vacationers and individuals who stay within the space.
The “leisure zone” would create designated areas to hold open alcohol containers and would enable anybody 21 and older to purchase alcoholic drinks from a Promenade enterprise and drink it open air between Wilshire and Broadway on the Third avenue Promenade.
The principles would require individuals 21 and older to put on a wristband, alcohol have to be in a non-glass or non-metal to go container, and folks would want to complete it earlier than getting into one other enterprise.
John Alle, a enterprise proprietor and the co-founder of the Santa Monica Coalition which represents about 6,000 residents and enterprise homeowners, stated that he’s nervous this could do extra hurt than good.
“We don’t assume it’s going to deliver again the 86 p.c of residents who don’t really feel secure coming again to the promenade, to dine or store. They’re going elsewhere, South Bay, Culver Metropolis, or Century Metropolis,” Alle stated. “To encourage bars to return to supply these individuals drinks I feel will deliver the fallacious crowd and can add the fallacious ambiance.”
Alle additionally stated they’re extra involved with the crime that’s hurting companies and need that to take precedence over this proposal.
Santa Monica Mayor Lana Negrete stated she’s hopeful the plan will entice extra individuals to return go to, which is certainly one of some ways they’ll be capable to deliver again enterprise to the realm.
“The summer season is commonly a time the place all over the place in Los Angeles prompts with open wine gardens, and free live shows with 1000’s of individuals, and that hasn’t confirmed to be an issue that we’re conscious of, there’s different communities that do that throughout the state, not in California,” Negrete stated. “So I say we have now to provide it an opportunity that’s why we’re being extraordinarily trepidatious and rolling it out slowly.”
The present proposal deliberate for this to function from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. however the mayor stated they’re nonetheless deciding on the precise hours and days it would go into impact.
