City of Gainesville - File #: 110017.

• File #: 110017.
• Version: 5
• Name: DOWNTOWN SPECIAL EVENT (B)
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 8/4/2011
• In control: City Attorney
• Final action: 8/18/2011
• Title: DOWNTOWN SPECIAL EVENT (B) Ordinance No. 110017 An Ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending Chapter 4 of the City of Gainesville Code of Ordinances relating to alcoholic beverages; by repealing subsections (b) and (c) of Section 4-4 in their entirety, and creating and adding new subsections (b), (c) and (d) to said Section, relating to the sale, consumption and possession of alcoholic beverages; providing for the temporary outdoor sale, dispensing and consumption of beer at a special event, in the Central City District on the Fridays immediately preceding regularly scheduled home football games for the University of Florida; setting forth conditions and specifications for issuance of a special event permit; prohibiting the possession of open containers of alcohol in specified areas; clarifying and providing for other special events and areas where alcoholic beverages may be served and consumed; providing penalties; providing for permit fees; providing a severability ...

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/18/2011	5	City Commission	Adopted on Final Reading, as amended (Ordinance)	Pass
8/4/2011	2	City Commission	Adopted on First Reading, as amended (Ordinance)	Pass
7/7/2011	1	City Commission	Approved as Recommended	Pass
5/19/2011	0	City Commission	Approved as Recommended	Pass

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DOWNTOWN SPECIAL EVENT (B)

Ordinance No. 110017
An Ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending Chapter 4 of the City of Gainesville Code of Ordinances relating to alcoholic beverages; by repealing subsections (b) and (c) of Section 4-4 in their entirety, and creating and adding new subsections (b), (c) and (d) to said Section, relating to the sale, consumption and possession of alcoholic beverages; providing for the temporary outdoor sale, dispensing and consumption of beer at a special event, in the Central City District on the Fridays immediately preceding regularly scheduled home football games for the University of Florida; setting forth conditions and specifications for issuance of a special event permit; prohibiting the possession of open containers of alcohol in specified areas; clarifying and providing for other special events and areas where alcoholic beverages may be served and consumed; providing penalties; providing for permit fees; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date.

recommendation
The City Commission adopt the proposed ordinance as amended.

explanation
At its meeting on July 7, 2011, the City Commission authorized the City Attorney to draft and the Clerk of the Commission to advertise an ordinance amending the Code to permit the sale of beer only, on the street for a 501(c)(3) sponsor, on Fridays that precede a regularly scheduled University of Florida home football games, when such events are produced to attract and entertain people across a broad range of ages and is co-sponsored by the city. The ordinance reflects the criteria discussed at the meeting.

Contemporaneously, the City Attorney's Office revised this section of the Code of Ordinances to clarify the prohibition on open containers and the special events and areas where alcoholic beverages may be served and consumed.

At its meeting on August 4, 2011, the City Commission approved a...