From: Curtis Burgess
[burgess@themendotagroup.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010
3:15 PM
To: licensing
Subject: in favor of Monroe liquor
store
My
biggest issues is that people in the neighborhood and the city itself should
not be denying any legal business, operating legally, the ability to operate in
that location, bring incremental economic activity to Monroe Street and fill a
vacant building.
Arguments
of increased traffic, noise and trash in the surrounding neighborhood are
silly. The existence of store doesn’t create these things but rather
people do and most people utilizing the store will be neighborhood
residents. I can’t imagine lots of students or west side residents will
pass all the other options for buying liquor in Madison to find their way to
Monroe Street, then buy the liquor, open it on the spot and become disorderly.
Certainly a restaurant with a liquor license has a greater
potential than a liquor store to deliver drunk/disorderly people into the
neighborhood and there isn’t much push back against them. I lived around
the corner to Mikes on Regent and it was a great asset to that
neighborhood.
Curtis
Burgess
1901
Jefferson
Curtis
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