JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A proposal to allow open consumption of alcoholic beverages along Jacksonville's Riverwalks passed the Downtown Investment Authority Strategic Implantation Committee Monday.
The DIA board of directors now has to decide whether or not to ask the City Council to enact legislation allowing open container on the Northbank and Southbank Riverwalks.
State law allows for the creation of Riverwalk specialty centers, where businesses with liquor licenses which are near waterfronts can designate an area along the waterfront where people can take alcohol with them.
If this resolution passes, alcohol would be allowed on the Riverwalks from 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Businesses would be issued special cups, which they would give to customers to designate that they had purchased the drink there. These cups would be the only ones allowed for drinking alcohol on the Riverwalks.
