City council members introduced 24 resolutions and 20 bills at Thursday’s meeting — the first since the summer recess — but much of the focus centered around the business curfew that council approved in June.
The curfew, which takes effect in mid-November, will require corner stores and takeout businesses in the Seventh and Eighth Districts to close between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. It also affects a portion of the First District. Those districts include Germantown, Fairhill and Kensington, among other neighborhoods.
The curfew omits restaurants and with liquor licenses and is designed to target illegal activity. Proposed by Councilmember Quetcy Lozada (D-7), it expands a curfew put in place in Kensington in 2024…