By Mark Wineka
mwineka@salisburypost.com
Salisbury City Council will hold a public hearing Tuesday on a proposed curfew for juveniles.
After the hearing, council will consider adopting the “Youth Protection Ordinance,” which contains the curfew.
The curfew would make it unlawful for juveniles to be in a public places between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. Sunday-Thursday and between 12:01 a.m. and 6 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.
The ordinance’s definition for public places would include restaurants, theaters, stores, bowling alleys, schools, playgrounds, parks, streets, sidewalks and parking lots.
Juveniles violating the curfew would be subject to being referred to juvenile court or diverted from court to an appropriate community program.
Parents or guardians and owners or operators of establishments where the curfew is violated also can be held accountable under the ordinance. They could be found guilty of a misdemeanor and fined $100.
Council meets at 4 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 217 S. Main St.
In other agenda items, council will:
– Hold a public hearing on Marsha Wood’s request for a special-use permit. She seeks the permit to allow construction of a 1,200-square-foot, two-story secondary dwelling at 702 Mitchell Ave.
Wood wants to build the secondary dwelling at the rear of the parcel and facing Boyden Street.
– Hold a public hearing on Dunkan Echevarria’s request for a special-use permit for his Havana Knights Cigar & Wine Shop at 117 S. Lee St.
He seeks the permit to allow the on-site consumption of alcohol, which will be associated with the cigar bar. Businesses where on-site alcoholic beverages are sold and are not part of a larger restaurant are classified as a bar, tavern or nightclub.
The bar, tavern or nightclub use is permitted in the Downtown Mixed-Use zoning district with a special-use permit.
– Hold a public hearing on an application from Daryl Dees and Brian Fox, new owners of the Fuel Depot Bar and Grill at 2168 Statesville Blvd., to have two pool tables.
– Hold a public hearing on an application from Julio Nunez to have eight pool tables at a business he wants to open at 425 E. Lafayette St.
– Hold a public hearing on Novant Health Inc.’s request to rezone 1 acre at the intersection of Mocksville Avenue, Caldwell Street and Franklin Street, just north of the Jersey City neighborhood.
The existing zoning is split between Neighborhood Mixed-Use and Residential Mixed-Use. Novant wants Residential Mixed-Use for the whole parcel.
– Consider a driveway variance at 403 W. 15th St.
– Adopt an updated Municipal Records Retention and Disposition Schedule.
– Receive a petition from North Hill Christian School asking for the voluntary annexation of its campus at 2970 W. Innes St.
– Recognize the city of Salisbury’s Relay for Life team.
– Recognize the Pops at the Post Committee members and sponsors.
– Proclaim June 20 as “A Day of the Arts” and July as Parks and Recreation Month.
Council meetings are streamed live at www.salisburync.gov/council/webcast.html and are shown later on Time Warner Cable’s ACCESS 16 channel.