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Show Another Private Club The City Council approved a private club application made by Grey Ashe for the Sirloin Saloon Restaurant located in the Prospector Pros-pector Hotel. -Considerable discussion pro-ccdccl pro-ccdccl the vote to approve. Councilman Jack Green questioned question-ed t he application on the grounds that there arc already numerous clubs on Main Street, and expressed a desire for some type of formal policy to regulate the issuance of permits. .Ian Wilking disagreed with Green, saying he would like to see as many private clubs in Park City as demand would support. Private clubs, which offer mixed drinks to members who pay nominal initiation fees, arc a means of circumventing Utah's liquor laws which permit only 3.2 beer dispensed at public bars and taverns. In a tourist-oriented economy like Park City's, where there is a definite demand for mixed drinks, the private club is considered necessary in order to compete with other resort areas. People come to have fun. and to a lot of people, cocktails are more fun than beer. - City Attorney Carl Nemelka told the Council that there arc no State statutes governing the number of private clubs which can exist in any given town. He said that if Park City had a strip of private clubs running from the top to the bottom of Main Street, it might "wake up" the Liquor Commission as to the peculiar na.ure of the state's alcohol codes. In other City Council matters, business licences were issued to Ron Whaley. owner of "On the Other Hand" second-hand shop at 405 Main, and to Jill Johnson for 'Turquoise Limited", a jewclerv store located in Silver Mill House at the Resort Plaa. |