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The City Council of Downtown Culver City has directed staff to work with the Economic Development Subcommittee to begin modifying an ordinance that would allow an entertainment zone designation for the area.
The proposed zone would include the entire Downtown Culver City Business Improvement District — covering Town Plaza, The Culver Steps, and Main Street, where many special events occur throughout the year. Licensed establishments would be allowed to sell alcoholic beverages and patrons would be permitted to roam freely within the zone while consuming them. The program would require restrictions on glass and non-compostable containers as well as the use of age-verification wrist bands. A map of the exact boundaries is available on the City’s website.
Mayor Dan O’Brien, Vice Mayor Freddy Puza, and Council Members Yasmine-Imani McMorrin and Albert Vera, Jr. voted in favor of the initiative. Council Member Bubba Fish voted against, citing a “lack of safety mitigations included.”
Santa Monica First (Well Second)
The DTCC proposal would be different than the one from the existing Entertainment Zone in one important way: the pedestrian-only stretch of the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica may be the second EV in the state, after San Francisco, but it’s the only one in a pedestrian only zone. Under an ordinance passed in May of this year, adults aged 21 and over can purchase alcoholic beverages from participating licensed businesses along the Promenade (between Wilshire Boulevard and Broadway) and consume them outdoors from Friday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
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