Luke J. Garrott, second from right, shakes hands with Mayor Ralph Becker after being sworn in as a Salt Lake City council member in Salt Lake City, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2012.
Ravell Call, Deseret News
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SALT LAKE CITY — A proposal allowing neighborhood bars in Utah's capital city will come to a vote Tuesday night, and at least one city councilman is so confident it will pass that he is planning a victory party, and he's using public money to do it.
Luke Garrott, one of the more vocal proponents of the alcohol-related zoning changes on the City Council, said he's got the necessary four votes lined up to secure a victory.
Years of discussion have surrounded a proposal to change zoning for alcohol-specific establishments, which would open up new areas for business. Some of those areas abut residential zones.
On Friday, Garrott began inviting supporters, past public officials, and individuals who have worked on the issue to a private reception that will follow Tuesday's meeting.
The event will be funded from Garrott's "constituent communication" budget, public money set aside for City Council members to be used at their discretion.
Sugar House resident Michael Erickson has vocally opposed aspects of the proposal for two years. He received a forwarded copy of the email announcing the celebration from another resident who also opposes the changes.
Erickson said it doesn't seem right that members of the council are planning to celebrate such a divisive decision before a vote is taken.
"It appears to me to be evidence that at least this member of the City Council and perhaps others have not really been all that focused on a compromise," he said. "They've been more focused on winning their side."
Garrott said the reception is meant to celebrate the work that went into an initiative that he called an important step in Salt Lake City's neighborhood business development.
The reception isn't specifically in honor of the alcohol zoning ordinance, though that is the most visible item on the agenda, Garrott said. Also on the docket are transit concerns, mother-in-law apartments and a demolition ordinance.
"This has to do with the convergence of all these issues, but to lift a cup of cheer for the alcohol vote, I think, is fitting," he said.
Garrot said he doesn't see the issue as "divisive."
"It's an issue of neighborhood development," he said. "I think that the voters of Salt Lake City have shown they are in support of this kind of change."
City Council Chairman Soren Simonsen said he's not sure the vote is wrapped up, but he also supports the change.
18 Sep, 2012
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Source: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865562601/Alcohol-ordinance-vote-tonight-but-party-already-planned.html
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