Opinion: Liquor store limits help keep Edmontonians safe

Re. “The spirit of the law?” Editorial, Jan. 19
The Edmonton Journal believes Edmonton’s liquor store proximity bylaw is “arbitrary” and “overreaching.” It declared so in a Jan. 19 editorial, in which it also called for city council to scrap the bylaw, which stipulates no liquor store can operate within a 500-metre radius of another.
Let’s start with what is patently untrue. The 500-metre limit is not “arbitrary.”
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