Juice Bar Event Ordinance

At a glance

  • What: an ordinance on the process for juice bar events (sec. 14-6).
  • Where it stands: Heard in Legislation 9/30; the City Plan Commission advised approval on 9/16 with a recommendation to reconsider the 10-year good-standing requirement; first reading 10/5. Passed by the full Board on 10/19.
  • Next: Takes effect per the ordinance; police and the permitting office implement the new permit process.

Details

  • The sources read are agendas and, where posted, minutes; discussion detail is limited to what they record.

Sources

Log

2026-10-19 - Board of Alders

  • Passed on a roll-call vote. Requirements: special event permit; cafe permit held at least 10 consecutive years; no juice bar or state liquor violations in two years; no debts to the city; five days' notice to police, who may assign officers at the establishment's expense and reject or end an event; fines of $2,500, $5,000 and $10,000. Sponsors cited violence, police overtime and noise complaints; it builds on the August zoning amendment barring new juice bars.

2026-10-05 - Board of Alders

  • First readings: Legislation items including the parking ordinances, the civil citation ordinance and the juice bar ordinance (Parking Ordinances and Automated Enforcement, Civil Citation Enforcement Ordinance, Juice Bar Event Ordinance).

2026-09-30 - Legislation Committee

  • Ordinances: oversized and commercial vehicle parking in residential, park or cemetery zones (sec. 29-53), a new Article IX on Automated Parking Control Systems, and a juice bar event process (sec. 14-6).

2026-09-16 - City Plan Commission

  • The commission advised approval of the juice bar event ordinance, with a recommendation to reconsider its 10-year good-standing requirement.