restaurant industry

City Council

Our view | Longview City Council must cut sidewalk dining costs | #citycouncil

There are some solutions we find by accident. Penicillin, silly putty, smoke detectors and Coca-Cola were all accidental products of an unrelated project. Sidewalk dining is much the same. During the COVID-19 pandemic, restaurants were trying to figure out how to thread the needle of social distancing in a scenario where masking wasn’t really an […]

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Marion City Council approves social district for downtown | #citycouncil

By MIKE CONLEY Marion will have a social district where patrons can walk around with open containers of alcohol within a designated and regulated area. The idea is to encourage more revitalization in the downtown as other North Carolina cities already have done. The creation of such a district was unanimously approved by the Marion […]

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Bed and breakfast proposal heads to Napa City Council on appeal | #citycouncil

Easily access the very latest local news that matters in an app built for you. Read, see, and hear exclusive commentary, stunning photography,… The planned transformation of a 1,200-square-foot, three-bedroom Napa house into a bed-and-breakfast inn failed to win over a majority of the city planning commission last month, largely because of a belief the […]

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