The House Regulatory Reform Committee passed out of committee HB 4257 (Denby, R-Fowlerville), a reintroduction from last session.\u00a0\u00a0This bill amends the Michigan liquor control code dealing with redevelopment liquor licenses.\u00a0According to a recent determination by the Liquor Control Commission, only businesses in cities are eligible for redevelopment liquor licenses.\u00a0\u00a0This determination is counter to the last six years, where the Liquor Control Commission has allowed the redevelopment licenses in TIF districts to be for cities, villages, or townships.\u00a0\u00a0This bill is an attempt to rectify this issue and clarifies eligibility for the redevelopment liquor licenses in the development districts to cities, villages, and townships.\u00a0We have heard from multiple villages worried about this because their redevelopment efforts are coming to a halt without being eligible for these redevelopment licenses.<\/p>\n
Towards the end of session last year this bill became an issue because the Restaurant Association and the Licensed Beverage Association wanted an amendment that expanded the search for a quota license to the entire county instead of only the municipality prior to seeking a redevelopment license, a problem from the League\u2019s perspective because there are so many different cost inconsistencies from one area of the county to another.\u00a0 It passed out of the House last session without the amendment but there was a commitment by the chair of the senate committee it was in to add that amendment on.\u00a0 However, it died in that committee at the end of session.<\/p>\n
Rep. Denby is committed to doing this for the communities who have been using this as a redevelopment tool but will now not be able to do so unless this is changed.\u00a0 Knowing what happened last session and that it would be the same fight this session, she and her staff tried to work a solution that would work for both municipalities and the industry.\u00a0 The substitute version states the countywide search is only necessary in the areas where the license fair market value is the same as the municipality where the establishment is located.<\/p>\n
This bill moves onto the full house.<\/p>\n
Nikki Brown is a legislative associate for the League handling economic development issues.\u00a0 She can be reached at nbrown@mml.org or 517-908-0305.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The House Regulatory Reform Committee passed out of committee HB 4257 (Denby, R-Fowlerville), a reintroduction from last session.\u00a0\u00a0This bill amends the Michigan liquor control code dealing with redevelopment liquor licenses.\u00a0According to a recent determination by the Liquor Control Commission, only businesses in cities are eligible for redevelopment liquor licenses.\u00a0\u00a0This determination […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","mml-onemagnify-plugin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n