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June 2, 2008
MayoI' jack Haugen
City Council Memb€!r's
City of Prior lake
Prior Lake, MN 55372
Re: Request to change the off.sale liquor ordinance
Dear Gentlemen,
My request to change the off-sale liquor ordinance is as follows:
No off.sale into)(icating liquor license shall be issued for a premise that is within one half {1/ll mile of
another off-sale intoxicating liquor facility. Facilities operating on the effective date of this chapter may
continue to operate whether or not they are within one half (1/2.) mile of another facility.
Thank you for your attentton to this matter.
Respectfully,
Kevin W. Bresnahan
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As stated previously, the current ordinance requires that off-sale liquor stores be located
at least one-mile from another off-sale liquor store and that they be located within a
freestanding building. Staff surveyed market cities for their population, liquor store
location restrictions (if any), and number of stores. Please find the results oelo"\.\":_
City
Pop.
Apple V alley
45,527
Bloomington
87,476
Brooklyn Park
67,388
Bumsville
60,202
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Coon Rapids
61,907
Eagan
63,557
Edina
47,425
Lakeville
43,128
Minnetonka
51,301
Plymouth
65,894
St. Louis Park
44,126
Location Restrictions
Number of Stores
None (municipal)
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None
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None- an owriercan ~nly own
one store, must be 1,000
sq. ft.
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Cannot be within 1 mi. radius of another
liquor store and must qe within a
freestanding building.
8
One mile radius (Changed ordinance
to allow a class B license for wine
and beer only as secondary, separate
use.)
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None
10
None (municipal)
3
None (municipal)
4
None
11
500' from School
13
None
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Staff also surveyed five additional cities including ~den Prairie, Bloomington, Golden
Valley, Prior Lake, and Shakopee and none of these cities have any restrictions on the
location of liquor stores.
Bumsville is the only city that has both the one-mile radius restriction and the
freestanding building requirement of all the cities listed above and an additional 24 other
cities in Minnesota (all with population of20,000 or more) surveyed by mail. Only
Crystal, (pop. 24,000) has the same requirement as Bumsville requiring off-sale liquor
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Underage Drinking in U.S. Is on the Rise
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 10:46 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (lp) -- Nearly a third of high school students say they binge drink at least once a month,
according to a report that says underage drinkers now account for 25 percent of the alcohol consumed in this
country. /
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"Underagb drinking has reached epidemic proportions in America," said Joseph Califano Jr., president of the
Natio~a:( Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, which issued the report Tuesday.
TJre report, which analyzes two years' research, "is a clarion call for national mobilization to curb underage
drinking," said Califano, a former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
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-- Eighty-seven percent of adults who drink had their first drink before age 21.
--The gender gap for drinking is disappearing. Female ninth-graders were just as likely to be drinkers as male
ninth-graders.
--Eighty-one percent of high school students have consumed alcohol, compared with 70 percent who hav.e
smoked cigarettes-arId 47 percent who have used marijuana.
--Most teens who experiment with alcohol continue using it. tAmong high school seniors who had tried alcohol,
91.3 percent still were drinking in the 12th grade.
The percentage of teens who drink on binges -- 31 percent among high school students -- was obtained by using
the Youth Risk Behavior Survey of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, published in
2000. The conclusion that underage drinkers accounted for 25 percent of alcohol consumption was based on
the 1998 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. The number of drinks consumed by underage drinkers in
a month was divided by the total number of drinks in the same period for the sample.
"Alcohol is far and away the top drug of.abuse for 1\werican kids,#'said Susan Fost~:!l"l11be center's vice;-
president and director of policyreseaich'and analysis? "The college binge-drinking problem starts with
children and teens, and that's where our prevention and education efforts must be focused."
A spokesman for the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States called the group's analysis "flat-out wrong."
"Under its flawed ifJ.terpretation, each American teen-ager and young adult who illegally drinks alcohol would
have to consume '120 drinks per month," to make up the 25 percent consumption figure, said spokesman Frank
Coleman.
Phil Lynch, a spokesman for Brown-Forman Corp., whose products include Jack Daniel's Tennessee whiskey,
said, "It looks like Mr. Califano and CASA have adopted Emon's accounting practices."
Binge drinking often is described as four consecutive drinks for a female or five drinks for a male. According
to an AIJ;1erican Medical Association survey last year, binge drinking is among parents' top worries. Around 44
percent of college students admit to binge drinking, and nearly a fourth of those binge frequently.
Underage drinking crosses social dynamics as well. President Bush's twin daughters, Jenna and Barbara, have
gotten in trouble for underage drinking.
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from their own homes, and children cite other people's homes as the most common setting for drinking.
The report also cv,nplains that the entertainment industry has glamorized alcohol and rarely shows its ill
effects. It noted that NBC television recently announced it would start accepting commercials for distilled
beverages, breaking a longtime tradition ofrefusing such ads.
The center advises parents to discuss the consequences of underage drinking with children but also
recommends that policy-makers step up enforcement of underage drinking laws and finance additional
treatment programs for adolescents. The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy also should be
broadened to include alcohol in its media campaigns and other activities, the report said.
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On the Net: National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse: http://www.casacolumbia.org
Distilled Spirits Council: http://www.discus.health.org/
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By Karen Thomas
USA TODAY
Teenage girls are almost as likely
to drink alcohol as teen boys are,
closing a generations-old gender
gap, a study released Tuesday says.
An analysis of national data by
the National Center on Addiction
and Substance Abuse (CASA) finds
overall alcohol use among teens in-
volves 48% of girls and 52% of boys.
. Tenth-grade girls who binge drink
(five or more drinks in a row)
reached 31%.in 1999; 34% of boys
that age are binge drinkers.
The gender gap disappears en-
tirely among ninth-graders: 40% of
boys drink vs. 41% of girls; 22% of
boys binge vs. 20% of girls.
"We found that ... girls want to
be one of the boys, so they go
drink-for-drink with them," says
CASA President Joseph Califano.
"Also, girls are under enormous
pressure to have sex, and alcohol is
a big disinhibitoc"
Experts say alcohol is more
problematic for women, who me-
tabolize it more slowly and be-
come intoxicated more quickly
than men. They also tend to be-
come alcohol-dependent fastec
The report says underage drink-
ing accounts for one-fourth of all
alcohol consumed in the USA, a
figure hotly disputed Tuesday.
The conclusions are "absolutely,
statistically wrong," says Peter
Cressy, president of the Distilled
Spirits Council of the United States.
Late Tuesday, the Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Ad-
ministration, whose data CASA
used, said underage drinking ac-
I counts for 11.4% of consumption.
CASA is calling for stricter alco-
hol policies and a campaign against
underage drinking financed by the
alcohol industry. Cressy says the
industry has spent $120 million in
the past 10 years to counter un-
derage drinking.
Among.adultspolled by CASA:
... 86% want restrictions on
home delivery of alcohol.
... 74% support restrictions on
alcohol advertising;
...76% say parents should be
held legally. responSible for teen
drinking.
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By Julie Snider, USA TODAY
Underage drinking
is discussion topic
A "Youth Fishbowl Discussion on Un-
derage Drinking" will be 7 to 9 p.m. Tues-
day, March 12, at Plymouth Creek Cen-
ter, 14800 34th Avenue North, Plymouth.
During the discussion, youth from the
Wayzata School District will discuss
what they see as contributing to under-
age drinking and ~hat the community
can do to reduce the problem. Results of
the School District's 2001 Minnesota Stu-
dent Survey will be shared.
Adults will have the opportunity to
ask youth and other adults questions
after the discussion. Information: 612-
803-1194. .
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E4.STARTRIBUNE
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6 . 200:
DRINKING from El
Parents should be alert for
changes in behavio~friends
"Binge" drinking held near-
ly steady, too, but at a tate
alarming to health profession-
als: One in three seniors re-
ported having five or more
drinks in a row within the past
two weeks; one in six ninth-
" graders said they had.
"1 ]:Jelievethat underage
drinking is really an epidemic.
with staying power," said Carol
Falkowski, director of .research
communication at the Hazel-
den Foundation. "It's never
gone away: It's just always
been there."
Ofits power to tempt,
Falkowski said, "that doesn't
make them bad kids, and that
doesn't make you bad parents.
It's because of the world we
live in."
To Cynthia SloVIck of Maple
Grove, the right approach is
vigilance. She and herhus-
band, Jack, have always told
their children not to drink. But
Slovick said that as a parent
she'd be remiss in notkfiowing.
the statistics on teen drinking,
and foolish to feel immune.
She believes that her son,
Sean, 15, has not taken a drink.
He has no interest, and he
wouldn't jeopardize his right to
play school sports, she said.'
She said he,r daughter, Missy,
now 20 and a student at the
University of Missouri, did
admit to having a drink at a
couple of parties while in high
school.
"As a parent, you get a little
scared, and you wonder and
you worry," she said. "I hate to
sound like I didn't care about
it, but I always monitored
things. She was a really good
kid. She is a really good kid."
Can lead to trouble
But Falkowski stresses that
alcohol can send a young life
into a tailspin, and parents
need to kfiowwhen to get help.
She listed some trouble
signs: Youngsters get secretive,
defensive; they try to borrow
more - or even steal ~ mon-
ey; they lose their appetite;
they either sleep all day or
don't sleep at all; they lose in-
terest in their usual activities;
school attendance and work
falls off; they hang out with a
new crowd.
When Laura Langanki df
,Maple Grove was struggling
with two chemically depen-
" dent sons, she said, she learned
that alcohol shows up in urine
analyses for only about 12
hours. So she began to test her
sons as sOon as they tame
home at night, if she was suspi-
cious. Many treatment centers
are open all night, Langanki
said. If the test comes back
positive, she said, schedule a
chemical health assessment
!inmediately. That, too, is han-
dled by treatment centers ~
listed under" alcoholism" in
the Yellow Pages.
Health-care professionals,
in particular, worry about chil-
dren who start drinking while
very young. Dr: Donna Milner,
an emergency room physician
at Children's Hospital ofSt.
Paul, sees children in distress
, as young as 13.
At that age, Milner said,
drinking is often done on !in-
pulse: Kids find themselves
home alone and decide it
would be cool to raid their par-
ents' liquor supply. That's why
she tells all parents to lack up
any alcohol in the house.
Michaela Bykowski of Crys-
tal said that drinking very
young sent her life off cotirse. '.'
. She was 12, and shaken by the
death of her father. She went
on to marijuana and othet
drugs. Now 19, she has a 15-
. month-old daughter and no
high school diploma.
She credits her daughter
with turning het life around: "I
haven't done any drugs since! '"
got pregnant." She hopes to go
back to high school next fall.
Her mother warned her about .
drinking, she said, but riot early'
enough.
"It was after the fact; it was
too late," she said.."1twas just .
going in one ear and out the
other because I Was already in-
volved and Iwas, like, 'Come
on, Mom, I'm doing it ,and I'm
. still alive.' "
What would she say now to
a high school girl whom she
saw drinking? ' .
"1 would say, 'If you wantto
finish high school, if you want
to play sports, you can't do
thi'
s.
"Younger kids don't really
kfiowwhat this can lead to,"
she said. "People always say' ,
alcohol and marijuana are the
, gateway drugs, and I finnIy'
believe,that." . .
~H.J. Cummins is at
hcummins@smrtribune'com
Bingedrinl,ing'scampus toll
~ ,
Fraternities
argue that
this deadly
problem isn't
, theirs alone
By Mary Beth Marldein
USA TODAY
Gearin~ Up
for sprmg breal<
With spring break just around
the corner, many colleges are
stepping up alcohol~awareness
programs. .
Last year,more than 700 cam-
puses toOk part in a Safe Spring
Break promotion, in which stu-
dents are encouraged to sign a
pledge saying they won't drink
and drive. The national campaign
is sponsored by a Denver-based
national peer education network
called BACCHUS and GAMMA.
Examples:
~ Last year, more than 250 stu-
dents participated in the Univer-
sity of South Carolina's program,
"Don't Get Caught in a Pinch,"
which featured educational pro-
grams, movie screenings, games
and a midnight breakfast bar.
~ At California Polytechnic State
University at San Luis Obispo, stu-
dents who participated in eight
educational exercises were eligible
to win prizes, including a three- .. .
day trip to the destination of their
choice and a stay at a resort.
~ Next week, the University of
Miami kicks off a series of pro:
grams, including an address by
Cindy McCue, whose sonBrad, a
Michigan State University student,
died in 1998 from alcohol poison-
ing while partying with friends.
~/ ~ ? / (/' ;;<
By Heather tampbeJl. TIlt Dally Allee
Alfred (N.Y.) University: Benjamin
Klein was found dead in a creek Feb. 12.
isn't just the No. 1 issue in fraternities
and sororities. It's the number one issue
for all students:' says John Williamson,
executive vice president of the lndian-.
apolis-based North~American Inter-.
fraternity Conference, which repre-
sents 66 fraternities on 800 campuses
in the USA and Canada.
University at Buffalo spokesman Den-
nis Black doesn't disagree. "Obviously, a
lot off actors are involved:' he says. "But
fraternities and sororities can't separate
themselves from the fact that there's a '
history, and that history repeats itself."
Some colleges - notably Bowdoin
College in Maine - long ago eliminated
the Greel< system from campus alto-
gether. Other campuses have raised the
possibility but backed away for a host of
reasons, including alumni pressure, A
more common response is that ofIndi-
ana University, which delayed by one
Semester the,period during which fra-
ternity and sorority chapters may
recruit new members. The idea is to
wait until freShmen are better adjusted
to campus life. .
As for how to eliminate the phenom-
enon altogether, "When somebody
comes up with the answer they may
get a Nobel Prize:' says George Cath-
cart, spokesman for the University of
Maryland.
But skeptics aren't holding their
breath.
"I really don't see any action,any ac-
tion, that means anything," says George
Cantor, who chronicles his family's or-
deal after his daughter's death in the
jus1;-published Courtney:S- Legacy: A Fa-
ther:s- Journey (Taylor Trade Publishing,
$22.95). In 1998, Courtney Cantor fell
out of a University of Michigan dormito-
ry window and died after coming home
from a fraternity party. GHB was later
, discovered in her system,
'When a rash of these things appears
there's a public outcry and colleges
promise to clamp down and do more.
And then it surfaces again," Cantor says.
"It's discouraging that the whole cycle is
repeating itself and other families are
going to go through the same anguish
that we went through."
The circumstances in each case are
uniquely heartbreaking. Yetthe similar-
ities in five alcohol-related deaths this
month evoke a disquieting sense of deja
vu:
~ On Feb. 14, University of Maryland
student Daniel Reardon, 19, was dis-
connected from life support and died
after being found unconscious and in
cardiac arrest in the Phi Sigma Kappa
fraternity house, where he had accept-
ed a bid that night to join the group. Au-
topsy results are not yet available, but a
university statement says alcohol "may
have played an important part."
. Meanwhile, local police are still in-
I vestigating the September death of stu-
dent Alexander Klochkoff, 20, found on
the porch of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon
house with no pulse and with blood on
his nose. Alcohol poisoning was ruled
out, but investigators say gamma hy-
droxybutyrate - GHB, the "date-rape
drug" - was in Klochkoff's system.
~ 1\rvo San Diego State University
freshmen, Brian Jimenez and. Zachary San Diego State: Randy Salle places flowers at a memorial for freshmen Brian Jimenez and Zachary Jacobs, who died Feb.
Jacobs. both 18, died early Feb. 10 10 in a pickup truck crash after they left a party at the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house.
when their pickup truck crashed some-
time after they left a party at the Tau
Kappa Epsilon fraternity house. Police
are awaiting medical reports, but offi-
cials say the truck was speeding, and
winds were high. Just 14 months earli-
er, the fraternity was expelled from
campus after a hazing incident that
landed one 18-year-old in the hospital
and another in a detox center.
~ At Alfred (N.Y.) University, the
body of Benjamin Klein, 21, was found
Feb. 12 in a creek behind the Zeta Beta
Tau fraternity house. Police obtained
convenience-store videotape showing
him purchasing (legally) a bottle of beer
when last seen, and in news reports
fraternity brothers acknowledged hav-
ing punched Klein hard enough to
cause bruising. Police are investigating.
About 120 miles northweSt of Alfred,
on the same day Klein Was reported
missing, University at Buffalo architec-
ture major Jeffrey Critelli, 18, and friend
Travis Hennigar, 19, crashed their car in-
to a river Feb. 10 after visiting a fraterni-
ty party and then a popular bar for col-
lege students, where they used fake IDs.
Critelli escaped, but Hennigar has not
been found.
"The deaths are just piling up here,"
says Hank Nuwer, author of Wrongs of
Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing
and Binge Drinking (Indiana University
Press, $27.95) and a frequent lecturer
on the topic. By his count, at least 56
people have died in some variation on
, the themes of fraternities, alcohol and!
or hazing since March 15, 2000. .
The Alfred incident was all the more
saddening to some because the school
had launched a national conversation
aimed at stopping such behaVior after a
1998 incident involving freshman foot-
ball players being forced to drinl< large college campuses rose 4.2% (to 26,091)
amounts of alcohol and water. in 2000 over 1999, and the number of
Despite greater attention, "it aimost campus-based disciplinary referrals
seems to be worsening," says anti- rose 7.3% (to 120,063), Education De-
hazing activist Eileen ,Stevens of Say- partment statistics show. California
ville, N.Y., whose son, Chuck Stenzel, State University last summer adopted
died 24 years ago last Sunday after be- some of the most sweeping reforms, in-
ing locked in a trunk in cold weather eluding restrictions against naming
and forced to drink a mixture of hard li- events after a brand of beer, after a stu-
qual', wine and beer. "I don't know what dent at the Chico campus drank himself
it's going to take." to death.
Neither do others close to the tangle After tragedy struck, the University
of issues involved. Most experts ac- at Buffalo called a timeout on all Greek
knowledge that college drinking by it- activities for a week, suspended Alpha
self is a complicated problem. A 1993 Sigma Phi fraternity and charged three
national survey of college students by students with violating campus hazing
Harvard researchers found that nearly and drinking laws, which means they
half (45%) of males and more than a could be expelled.
third (36%) of females engage in binge Alfred University's trustees suspend-
drinking, But among Greek students, ed the fraternity and two of itslIlem-
the numbers are higher: 86% of fra- bel'S, tightened restrictions on other
ternity members and 80% of sorority Greek groups and are "questioning
members living in chapter houses are whether the Greek system should be
likely to engage in binge drinking. When allowed to continue:' says president
alcohol-related accidents occur, hazing Charles Edmondson. Meanwhile, 42
- essentially being pressured to engage states have enacted anti-hazing laws,
in some sort of initiation rite - often up from three when Stevens' son died
turns out to be a contributing factor. in 1978, But Nuwer says that, state for
College leaders say they have made state, the law "with very few excep"
progress through alcohol awareness tions is symbolic."
and educational programs, stronger National Greek organizations, too,
hazing policies and tougher enforce- have taken action, banning alcohol and
ment. The number of liquor arrests on hazing from chapter houses and shut-
U.s!1- 7~
tering houses that violate rules, Phi Sig-
ma Kappa national officials this week
revoked the charter of its University of
Maryland chapter, effective Saturday:
About 30 members must move out of
the fraternity house by the end of next
week.
But enforcement is tough. For one
thing, expelled fraternities can Con-
tinue to operate off campus as a private
dub, as was the case at San Diego State
University: .
National fraternity leaders also argue
that they are unfairly targeted by col-
lege administrators who want to deflect
negative publicity. They say the media
distorts perceptions even further by fo-
cusing on fraternities and sororities
when tragedies strike. Some studies
show. for example, that many students
are exposed to alcohol and hazing in
high school. A report released Tuesday
by the National Center on Alcohol and
Substance Abuse shows binge drinking
is widespread in high school - about a
third of 10th-graders do it. Athletics
teams, including a high-profile incident
at the University of Vermont, also en-
gage in hazing. And in the Buffalo case,
the students spent more time at a local
bar than at a fraternity party.
"Alcohol is the No. 1 issue on every
college campus I've been on. (But) it