Committee dumps proposal to remove liquor store separation rules for downtown, Oliver

A plan to ditch liquor store separation distances in two core neighbourhoods was tossed on the slush pile by city council’s executive committee on Tuesday.
Administration began poking around the possibility of removing the bylaw stipulation that liquor stores must be 500 metres apart at the direction of city council in 2017, after the Katz Group’s request to open a liquor store was rejected because of another seller in the vicinity.
A variance for separation distances in the Ice Dist