The 4-1 rejection stems from the shopping center on Barrett Parkway being fewer than 600 feet from a church.
The Cobb Board of Commissioners on Tuesday denied a waiver request for alcohol sales at a West Cobb Walmart because the store is fewer than 600 feet from a church. According to county law, a waiver may be granted for a business closer than 600 feet to a school or church if it can show that the sale of alcohol won't affect property values or adversely affect the school or church. The Walmart is at the intersection of Barrett Parkway and Powder Springs Road. Evidence presented by Walmart's attorney used a nearby RaceTrac as an example. The convenience store is more than 600 feet from the church—Pine Grove Baptist Church in Powder Springs—and has been selling beer and wine for several years. "No evidence has been presented to this board today…
During his third day at work, an 18-year-old employee of a Powder Springs gas station sold to a fellow teenager during undercover compliance checks of all locations with alcohol licenses.
Powder Springs police and the Georgia Department of Revenue went to the 18 businesses licensed to sell alcohol in the city limits on Aug. 9 to make sure they weren’t selling to minors, and all of them passed—except one. An undercover 18-year-old entered the S & A Food Mart at 3930 Austell-Powder Springs Road and purchased a 24-ounce can of Bud Light, Powder Springs police Lt. Lane Cadwell told the City Council at Monday’s meeting. The seller, Asiel Gonzalez, also 18, of Austell, was on his third day and still under the supervision of a manager. He was arrested for selling to a minor, a misdemeanor, and made his $711 bond the next day, jail records show. (His mugshot is attached.) Gonzalez, who was fired, had been checking customers’ IDs. …
Cobb County citizens will get to vote on whether to allow package sales of alcohol on Sundays.
The Cobb County Board of Commissioners is meeting at 9 a.m. in the boardroom at 100 Cherokee St. off Marietta Square. The top item on the agenda is a proposal to let Cobb County citizens vote in March on whether to allow package alcohol sales on Sundays. We're using CoverItLive to, well, cover it live; jump in and join the conversation. Commission Chairman Tim Lee presented a measure to the board to approve a resolution on Sunday sales, and no one else commented before the board voted unanimously in favor, 4-0. Lee's comments indicated that he sounded out his fellow commissioners about the proposal before bringing it before the public and knew they would agree. By holding the Sunday-sales vote at the same time as the presidential primary, …
Marcy Petty
4:19 pm on Monday, March 25, 2013
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