Morse Avenue, Rogers Park
from Sheridan Road to Clark Street
Should Morse Avenue be DRY?
Let us know where you stand by voting on the survey.
We believe that public urination, street fighting, littering, drugs, prostitution etc... can be significantly reduced on Morse Avenue by shutting down retail cash and carry liquor stores.
Existing and future bars, nightclubs and restaurants would be exempt from proposed ordinance and would remain open for business.
By getting a favorable response we will announce the date for an official kickoff meeting to begin developing strategic plans for shutting down the two stores now open for business, and to prevent further development of cash and carry liquor stores.
7 comments:
I'm not a fan of precincts going dry. It's not because I am in favor of public urination or all of the other issues that prefaced the poll question. It is because I think that people in a community should have the option of walking to the neighborhood liquor store or grocery and getting a six-pack of beer or whatever. If a precinct goes dry, people who want to enjoy a cold one simply have to travel that much farther or pay that much more for the pleasure. Those with means are better served, while those with less means get stuck.
I'm also not convinced voting a precinct solves the problem of people being obnoxious in public. I mean, what is to keep someone from drinking in a bar and then taking a pee on the way home? Ever been to Wrigley Field?
My sense is that litter and peeing in public are both symptoms of people having little respect for the community. I'd prefer to see efforts put into that, rather than trying to make it more expensive to buy a beer.
Well said Brian,
You nailed it. I mean let's face it. Just because some don't like Soo liquors, they are kept in business by those most marginalized by society.
Lets not try and solve any problems lets just keep pushing them into someone else's ward, neighborhood,city.
10 bucks..............if I announced I was opening a gourmet liquor store with a focus on wine and higher end beers the same people who want to vote Morse dry would hail me as a pioneer and someone who is putting there $ where their mouth is.
RP has very few, if any businesses that should be shut down.
I can however think of 8 or 10 I'd like to see OPEN.
Sorry but this whole notion of voting neighborhoods DRY smacks of eliteism and I can't stand the idea that 10-12 people can have such oversight and power to mold things to there liking without thinking of the real long term and perpetual problems facing all American cities.
Absolutely NO on that one.
Thanks for listening and more importantly, your involvement in the community even if I disagree.
Funny thing, Charlie seems to be in the minority status here.
Maybe Charlie needs to put up one of his juiced up polls on his website that the outcome is rigged how Joe wants it to be?
Maybe Craig should drop into Soo Liquors and buy a fucking bottle of clue.
Charlie seems to be getting sensitive.
Maybe Charlie needs to put up one of his juiced up polls on his website that the outcome is rigged how Joe wants it to be? Maybe this will make Charlie feel better?
Ha!
I pulled that poll because it WAS juiced.
Let's have a beer Craig, and maybe I will tell you WHO juiced it. (maybe)
Better yet, lets grab A 40oz from SOO LIQUORS!
;-)
I have to agree with Brian and Charlie.
I have to walk down that stretch of Morse every single day, but I would not want to see Soo shut down. The problem is not the business; if that business were in Lincoln Park, do you think people would be hanging out in front peeing in the street?
Where are the beat cops? And who's job is it to keep people from drinking in the streets? Is it the liquor store's job or law enforcement's?
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