Loudon County Liquor Stores? (Lenoir City, Greenback: law, license, rated)

[Exrvi]

I know Loudon County had this on the ballott, but I've not seen anything reporting the results.

Did it pass? How close was the result?

If it passed, when do you think the first one will open? Where could it be?

A great spot would be in the middle of Tellico Village

Jeff

[TheShadow]

I'd vote for that!

[BST]

Actually the vote was for liquor by the drink...still no package stores in Loudon County. Loudon Co. passed LBD but Lenoir City did not. Sounds like you still have to make that run to Dixie-Lee Junction Liquors.

[stikw]

Originally Posted by BST

Actually the vote was for liquor by the drink...still no package stores in Loudon County. Loudon Co. passed LBD but Lenoir City did not. Sounds like you still have to make that run to Dixie-Lee Junction Liquors.

you are mistaken.

[BST]

Originally Posted by stikw

you are mistaken.

Uh-oh...about which, Loudon County or Lenoir City?

[stikw]

Originally Posted by BST

Uh-oh...about which, Loudon County or Lenoir City?

the vote was for liquor stores, not LBD.

[TheShadow]

So how did the vote turn out? Did they approve the liquor stores?

[William Sold]

Hope this helps, a little confusing.....quoted from an article on knox news...

Loudon liquor store vote passes:

It will take more than the passage of a liquor store referendum to bring liquor stores to Loudon County.

Despite the 10,880-to-8,203 countywide vote in favor of the referendum to allow package liquor stores, the decision of just who gets a license to sell liquor and at what location is up to the Loudon City Council.

The wording of the state liquor laws makes the city of Loudon the only place in the county where a liquor store can operate, said city manager Lynn Mills.

State law provides that a city with a population equal to or greater than the population of the smallest county in the state must hold its own liquor store referendum. Moore County has the smallest population in the state at 5,470, according to the 2000 census.

Lenoir City, the largest municipality in the county with a population of 6,819 in 2000, was required to hold its own referendum. Voters in Lenoir City rejected the Nov. 4 referendum by a narrow margin, 1,199 to 1,149.

The city of Loudon, with a population in 2000 of 4,476, which is less than Moore County, could not hold its own referendum and is subject to the countywide referendum.

The other two municipalities in Loudon County are Philadelphia, population 533, and Greenback, population 954. They are prohibited from having liquor stores by state law, which does not permit a municipality of fewer than 1,000 to allow liquor stores.

That would leave the city of Loudon as the only municipality in the county where a liquor store could operate. In last week's referendum, voters in the city of Loudon voted 886 to 755 not to allow liquor stores in the county.

Voters in Tellico Village, which cannot have a liquor store because the area is not incorporated, voted overwhelming in favor of the referendum. Tellico Village supplied more than 4,000 of the approximately 10,000 votes cast countywide in favor of liquor stores.