Beer Sales

The Legislative and Finance Committee has asked the full council to have the Planning Commission hold a public hearing on selling beer at the Phillips/Conoco station at 95th and Mission. Please let your thoughts be known. I personally do not see a threat to the Prairie Village lifestyle brought by allowing the sale of beer at a gas station. There would not be anything more restrictive or permissive than selling beer at our grocery stores and there are already places in PV (or within a couple of blocks of a PV border) where you can park your car and, within 10 steps of the door, grab a case or a glass of beer.

No, there's not a particularly good reason to expand beer sales to gas stations, but just as importantly, there's not a compelling reason to prevent it. I don't think the government ought to spend a lot of time limiting what a PV business can sell if those items are already easily available elsewhere within the city.