HomeMy WebLinkAbout1980 04-23 Council: '18-year-olds can't serve 3.2 beer' THE REVIEW Single Copy 30` WED.,APRIL 23,1980
Owner protests
Council : ' 18-year-olds
can't serve 3.2 beer'
By MARY LEE HAGERT young people come in and pass around
beer.We have this restriction in at least
The Maplewood city council tagged two other places and it has worked out
several requirements on the 3.2 on-sale very well,"Schaller said.
beer license it granted on April 17 to the Mayor John Greavu interjected,saying
new Pizza Hut Restaurant near that he felt the requirements being placed
Maplewood Mall. on the 3.2 on-sale beer license were too
Among the requirements is the restrictive."It's getting to the point that
stipulation that only employees over age they can't do anything.The restaurants
19 be allowed to serve 3.2 beer. have so many restrictions on them
Owner William C.Ferrill protested this already.They have to have areas where
restriction. "We've already hired our they can smoke and can't smoke and the
staff and most of them are 18 year olds. list just keeps growing."
They(the employees)know you have to On a 3-2 vote the council approved the
be 19 to drink.We will police this very license. Greavu and Bastian voted
carefully.There will be no carry out." against the granting of the license.
Councilman Gary Bastian asked Ferrill In other action the council gave its
if the managers on staff couldn't serve the approval of a preliminary planned unit
3.2 beer. development for the Maple Knoll
The owner responded, "Well, the Townhouse Development.
managers are not paid to wait on tables. The council-attached a new list of
They have many other responsibilities." requirements on the developers of the
He continued, "We don't allow our federally subsidized,57-unit housing
employees to drink on the premises— project.The townhouses are proposed to
whether they are on duty or not." be be constructed in the center of a block
Bastian asked how many of the newly bounded by Radatz, White Bear and
hired employees were under age 19. Kohlman Avenues and the proposed
"I would say approximately 70 percent Southlawn Drive.
are 18 year olds,They are currently in The council's approval was given with
training and we plan to open the place in the stipulations:that adequate sized and
two weeks." designed water main serve the project;
Ferrill said that if the council kept its Southlawn Drive be constructed from 600
policy of requiring employees serving 3.2 feet south of Radatz Avenue to Beam
beer to be over age 19,he would have to Avenue, and construction of the storm
"reshuffle"his employees. water project shown in the Maplewood
The council members told the drainage plan for Radatz.The approval is
restaurant owner that the city's policy also subject to the city receiving federal
was to only have persons age 19 and older Housing and Urban Development funding
serving 3.2 liquor in all businesses in to help offset the costs of the street and
Maplewood. Ferrill questioned the utility installation.
legality of this policy. The council also:
City Attorney Don Lais told the owner —approved the Hillwood Drive and
the state generally allows cities to be Dorland Road street and utility project
more restrictive than the state law when for two developments in southern
dealing with liquor licenses. Maplewood.
Ferrill also objected to the council's —granted a variance-lot division for
requirement that 3.2 beer be served in an Voya Piletich at 2130 Arcade Street.
area reserved for persons 19 years and —tabled the Maple Greens final plat to
older. the next regular council meeting.
He said, "This really gives us an —gave a special exception to the city
operational problem." code to Theresa Barnhill and Jeane
Richard W.Schaller,Maplewood public Pearson for the operation of a Novel
safety director,told Ferrill that the other Exchange Store at 1997 White Bear Ave.
Pizza Hut in Maplewood at 2900 Rice St., —decided to have a no parking zone
has the same restrictions and"they are along English Street from Frost Avenue
able to live with it. to the railroad tracks.
"We feel there has to be a designated —planned to review the city's travel
area for the serving of the 3.2 beer so that and training policyfor the city em-
it can be policed.Otherwise,you can have ployees.