CULLMAN —
Hanceville’s city council gave the all-clear Thursday for the latest addition to the growing roster of local businesses getting in on legal alcohol sales.
The council unanimously approved an off-premises beer and wine alcohol sales license to the CVS pharmacy store, located at the corner of U.S. Highway 31 and Ala. Highway 91.
CVS will be the fourth retailer to sell alcohol at Hanceville since the city first went wet in March. It took a while after that for sales to begin, with the first retailer offering beer, wine and liquor in early June.
Residents approved legal sales by a 495-398 margin on March 5, two years after narrowly defeating the measure in the city’s first-ever referendum.
Next week, stores in Hanceville will be free to sell beer in containers up to 25.4 ounces, under the state’s new Gourmet Bottle Bill — legislation approved by Gov. Robert Bentley in May that allows Alabama’s single-container limit to exceed the 16-oz. threshold for the first time.
In other business at its regular meeting, the council:
*Rezoned three lots in a subdivision to correct a clerical error in how their zoning was recorded at the time the city’s current zoning map was created in 2006.
*Approved the city’s participation in the Alabama back-to-school tax-free holiday, waiving local sales taxes on approved purchases from Aug. 3-5.
*Reappointed Virginia Cornett to the city’s library board for a four-year term expiring in 2016.
*Renamed the Next Level sports building, which the city purchased to provide a place for Hanceville High School’s athletic training, the Coach Rayford Talley Athletic Training Facility.
*Approved Ordinance 584, which provides laws and penalties relating to public nuisance and weed abatement.
*Benjamin Bullard can be reached by e-mail at bbullard@cullmantimes.com, or by telephone at 734-2131, ext. 270.
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