BOULDER — The City Council this week will consider new regulations aimed at preventing alcohol abuse. The council Tuesday night will hold a study session to follow up on a resolution passed nearly five years ago after the alcohol-poisoning death of University of Colorado student Lynn “Gordie” Bailey.
That resolution promised a review of Boulder’s zoning codes, liquor-licensing policies and enforcement practices to see whether the city could do more to keep people from drinking too much. Council members will consider a wide range of options, including encouraging more people to come speak at liquor-board hearings and restoring a rule that would ban liquor licenses within 500 feet of the CU campus.
In a memo delivered to the council, planning officials have outlined a range of options. The strategy that staff say would most likely be effective would attempt to concentrate “high-risk” alcohol outlets into areas away from “neighborhoods, CU and mixed-use.” Daily Camera
