The district will enable certified companies to promote alcoholic drinks on their property after which enable patrons to take their open containers off the premises and devour them within the downtown leisure district.

The alcoholic drinks might be poured right into a specifically issued cup supplied to companies by the town and may be recognized as a part of the leisure district program.

Mayor Joe Meek informed the council that the leisure district idea was match for the town.

Inverness started its leisure district about two years in the past and engaged this system solely throughout particular occasions reminiscent of Independence Day celebrations and music festivals. Following its success, the Inverness Council agreed to broaden it and fascinating it daily.

“The purpose of this article is to encourage a location of safe and vibrant entertainment, retail and restaurant uses within a defined area of the city herein referenced as the Downtown Crystal River Entertainment District,” workers wrote the council as a part of the town’s agenda.

“The regulations within this article are enacted:

• To enable a variety of amenities to be offered to the public, in a convenient physical location, which will promote pedestrian use with an attendant decrease in vehicular traffic;

• To foster a mutual relationship among downtown merchants; and

• To encourage private development of entertainment facilities which enhance and complement the use of the public facilities within the Downtown Crystal River Entertainment District.”

The metropolis initiated the creation of an leisure district when it collaborated with its legislative delegation within the fall of 2021 to draft an area invoice offering for alcohol gross sales for consumption by on-premises licensed distributors inside a delegated zone in downtown Crystal River.

Since its first proposal, the council members have supported the initiative.