When the Carlsbad City Council meets tonight one of the topics they will be discussing is a new set of “entertainment regulations” that hopes to make the Village a little quieter. According to the North County Times the new regulations look a little like this:
- obtain an entertainment license if they serve alcohol and offer entertainment such as live music;
- pay a $200 license fee that would be good for three years;
- have employees trained through a state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board certified program;
- have at least one security guard on the premises;
- close between 2 and 6 a.m.;
- between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m., meet a new city noise standard of 65 decibels, up from the initial 60-decibel proposal.
None of it sounds unreasonable, especially when you consider the problems the Village has been having lately.
[Link: North County Times]
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What is the purpose of the $200 fee? How does that makes the village safer and more quiet?
Does the Council believe that the restaurants/bars who can’t afford the fee are the ones who are unsafe and loud, therefore resulting in them having to close shop? Is this just another tricky way to weed out the “eyesores” of the village? Though the Council is probably as ethically corrupt as that idea, I believe the reason for the $200 fee can be summed up in one word:
GREED