Does forbidding retail liquor licenses within 500 feet of schools actually keep children safer? I suppose if a liquor establishment has the surroundings littered with winos, that might be a bit offputting for the younglings, but I'm unconvinced that a restaurant serving margaritas on the weekend or at night is incompatible with a private school operated down the block during the day.
Amazingly, it appears the Denver City Council feels the same way.
Reshared post from +The Denver Post
Liquor licenses for eateries near schools
Colorado law forbids issuing retail liquor licenses within 500 feet of a school but gives the local licensing authority the right to eliminate the restriction. The rule was dropped in Denver a few years ago for colleges and universities, and now for K-12.
Denver liquor law change OKs booze-selling eateries near K-12 schools
Denver has overridden state law to allow alcohol-serving restaurants near schools, bending to the expectation of residents in the reviving urban core that they can have both a place to get a beer wit…
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I don't know about anywhere else, but in TN you can't sell within so close to a school OR a church..
Which makes equally little sense.