Regarding the alcohol ban, we are only going to lose tourism dollars (my mother is a local business owner, not alcohol-related, by the way), increase the homeless problem on the beach and help kill surrounding businesses.
I personally have gone to the beach between Reed Street and PB Drive every day since the riot, and I have not seen one police officer or a riot of any kind.
Nor has there been a need to, I guess. However, I have seen a serious increase in the homeless problem, and they are getting more aggressive towards tourists and locals alike. Isn’t it funny that the people who support the ban make all the money from renting to the partying crowd? My old slumlord is one of them.
Honestly, to all the people that are for the ban, have you seen a riot or droves of vomiting, cursing drunks parading down your street to urinate on your yard at 6 p.m. on a Wednesday afternoon when the sun goes down?
No, you haven’t. Will you tomorrow afternoon? No, you won’t. Will you see bars overserving people with no sense of responsibility or care for others on a nightly basis? Yep. They’ll probably pee on your car too.
Did you see a bunch of drunken underage losers being served by local establishments on the “three days of hell” in PB? Yes, you did.
Think a little further, we rely on the “drunks and addicts” from all the colleges we support on spring break and during summer. They pay the rent to all the people who support the ban. And now that the taxpaying headshop workers are going to go under, you might as well get your tattoos now. They’ll be gone by February.
Duh. Aguirre and the council do not have a clue.