SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – If you’ve only been to a handful of events in downtown Springfield, on Walnut Street, or on Commercial Street, you might not have realized that there is a limit on the number of events that can serve alcohol in these areas per year—twelve.
With a bill on the July 28 city council agenda, city leaders aim to remove the limit, allowing anyone requesting an event in these areas to have alcoholic vendors at their event, potentially. The bill lays out the three areas in a series of diagrams.
While planning the new Live from Downtown concert series, leaders from the Downtown Springfield CID and the Downtown Springfield Association encountered these roadblocks.
“We’re doing 20 concerts. There are only 12 events that are currently allowed to serve alcohol, right?” said Downtown Springfield CID board member Steve Eudaly. “And a lot of those are already taken, so even after all of these evergreen events that happen every year, there were only a very small handful of permits left.”…