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OFFICIALS URGE LIMIT ON SALE OF LIQUOR IN PROBLEM AREAS
P-I Staff and News Services
Tuesday, January 5, 1999
Section: News, Page: B3
Seattle Mayor Paul Schell, King County Executive Ron Sims and local public health and safety officials yesterday urged adoption of state regulations to restrict the sale of alcohol in neighborhoods with persistent alcoholism problems.
At a news conference yesterday, the government leaders urged the state Liquor Control Board to adopt a proposal that would allow local governments to designate ``alcohol impact areas," neighborhoods marked by chronic public inebriation or alcohol-related illegal activity.
The proposed regulations would allow the liquor board to restrict off-premises sales of cheap, high-alcohol beverages or to place conditions on liquor licenses to discourage sales of such products in problem areas.
The liquor board is holding public hearings on the proposal this week and could put them into effect as soon as Feb. 7.
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