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Paducah May Expand Sunday Alcohol Sales

Paducah May Expand Sunday Alcohol Sales
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By Adam Morton
Aug. 23, 2016 | PADUCAH, KY
By Adam Morton Aug. 23, 2016 | 07:32 PM | PADUCAH, KY
At their Tuesday meeting, Paducah city commissioners introduced an ordinance to amend sections of the city's alcohol and beverage control ordinance. 

One of the changes will allow alcohol by the drink at hotels, motels, and restaurants to be sold from 11 am to 10 pm, two hours earlier than currently allowed. It will also make Sunday sales by the drink permissible for quota retail drink licenses that are considered to be athletic facilities, and for distilleries that hold a non-quota 3 license.  

The ordinance will permit distilleries to sell souvenir packages of distilled spirits on Sundays, and will also shorten the training grace period for servers from 60 days to 30 days.

The amendment will bring the city ordinance in line with the recently passed Senate Bill 11 in the Kentucky State Legislature. 

Commissioners also introduced an ordinance to execute a $63,000 contract with HDR Engineering, Inc. to study the conversion of Broadway and Jefferson to two-way streets from Fountain Avenue to Water Street, and to look at the possible addition of bike lanes on sections of Broadway and Jefferson. The firm will determine if any new signage or markings are needed, and will study 3rd and Jefferson to determine if that intersection needs a signal.
 
"Its proven that two-way streets do slow traffic down that it gives you more time to take in your surroundings," Mayor Gayle Kaler said. "We've talked about this for a while now. We'll still have input from the public on it."

Commissioners will vote on both ordinances at their Sept. 6 meeting.


 

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