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Glanzer, Kathy <br />From: Dan.Knudsen @lacek.com <br />ant: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 12:20 PM <br />o: kathy .glanzer @ci.little- canada.mn.us <br />Subject: Re: 10/8 Council Workshop <br />Kathy, <br />Would you forward the following note to the members of the council for <br />me? <br />Attention: Members of the City Council. <br />Re: 2:00 closing for Little Canada drinking establishments <br />Gentlemen, <br />I wanted to pass along my perspective on this matter as a long time <br />resident of Little Canada and a concerned citizen. <br />First, let me say, I don't think I've been awake at two, much less <br />closed a <br />bar in 10 years, for myself, we could close the local bars at midnight. <br />But I think it is really important that we don't view this issue with <br />our <br />first reactions as forty or fifty something people, as our first <br />reaction <br />would be to not favor moving the closing to 2 a.m. (as it was mine) <br />.ter considering the matter however, I am for the passing for two <br />important reasons. <br />1. Creating a level playing field for the businesses in our community. <br />I <br />believe that not passing this would create an unfair advantage to <br />establishments in neighboring cities like Maplewood who are competing <br />for <br />the same entertainment dollar. As a council, I think this is one of <br />your <br />most important charges In talking to Tom Duray, although there was no <br />solid data points available to help to quantify the impact, it seems <br />that <br />this would drive some patrons to select to visit a 2:00 establishment to <br />visit in the first place, for others it causes them at some point in the <br />evening to move to another bar for more drinking, apparently this begins <br />to <br />happen as early as 9 or 10. If the impact is 5% of revenue, it could <br />ultimately make the difference between making it and folding up. <br />2. Safety, having this patron "migration" during earlier hours vs having <br />them leave once, I believe is also important, Not to mention some of the <br />younger citizens of our community (who are inclined to stay up that <br />late) <br />have a shorter drive on the way home. <br />^tha11y, I think its important to not mix up the issue before us, I <br />ally <br />don't support the overall 2:00 bar closing anywhere, but given that that <br />horse has already left the barn, I think that passing the 2:00 for our <br />1 <br />